Subject: Take heed, 40 tips for a better Life.
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 09:17:26 03/16/08 ()
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1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.
3. Buy a DVR and tape your late night shows and get more sleep.
4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, 'My purpose is to __________ today.'
5. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
6. Play more games and read more books than you did in 2007.
7. Make time to practice meditation and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink green tea and plenty of water.. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Clear clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and flowing energy into your life.
14. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.
18. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?'
26. Forgive everyone for everything.
27. What other people think of you is none of your business.
28. GOD heals everything.
29. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
30. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
31. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
32. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
33. The best is yet to come.
34. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
35. Do the right thing!
36. Call your family often. (Or email them to death!!!) Hey I'm thinking of ya!
37. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: I am thankful for __________. Today I accomplished _________.
38. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
39. Enjoy the ride. Remember this is not Disney World and you certainly don't want a fast pass. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy the ride.
40. Please forward this to everyone you care about.
May your troubles be less, May your blessings be more, May nothing but happiness come through your door!
Subject: Calling Cards - New provider - New Cards- Better Prices
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:51:59 03/16/08 ()
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Our new and improved store is now open and running smoothly...
We are happen with the new providers and the minutes and connection they provide..
We also offer great callback rates and webcall rates.
If you are in Sierra Leone on business or pleasure, why use celtel rates or africells or comiums rates..
Why not use AMERICAN RATES. Place a call by having us call you in Sierra Leone FROM America on american rates.
If you are in America, and cant get to a store or computer..We offer SMS call, text message us and we top up your card. So on the road, you can Top up by sending a text and comtinue talking..
If you are not one of our customers yet..
Please try to support an indigene's business..
We can talk all we want.. but it is not only marrade, en awoojoh and shower normoh we should be willing to participate..
Business and economic activities is what shalt set us free. Especially that which is MADE IN SIERRA LEONE.
BUY SALONE, dont give those other guys your money.
Subject: Re: Calling Cards - New provider - New Cards- Better Prices
From: His Royal Highness
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Date Posted: 09:13:13 03/16/08 ()
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Look here fat boy:
First of all buddy you hate the APC for one. But when that is not enough, you come to an APC newspaper site to get free advertisement for APC supporters to purchase your product. That ain't gonna happen! You say you support the APC now or the prefect will delete your ad and APC supporters will NOT allow you to "fry" them with their LIPID
Subject: Re: Calling Cards - New provider - New Cards- Better Prices
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 10:24:39 03/16/08 ()
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BRA, is this official policy???
Are you speaking on behalf of cocorioko?
Is this an APC Newspaper site"?
Have i ever said i hate the APC?
Dont brand me please just for demanding the change we where promised.
So far, all i have done is ask that i be allowed to practice my civic duty to my country by demanding that the CHANGE I WAS PROMISED was not just election rhetoric...
If that is illegal in your quarters, you need a mental check.
I see you are not even hesitating 1 minute to satire the borbor bellehs of the last government.
I hope in your fair mind, you would not cry bloddy murder when your side recieve the same pictorial chastise...
Anything else, you are a bloody hypocrite.
Not supporting a Sierra Leone business just cause the proprietor is outspoken is more than disgusting..
I am here, everyday, contributing, helping out... bringing service to my people..
Yes here.. in this "APC Newspaper site".. now.. tell me..
Should i? If we are not supposed to buy from anyshop with RED paint..?
Its hard to grasp this new phenomenon when common sense is the first thing thats seems to be pushed over the balcony when politics is discussed..
Subject: Re: Calling Cards - New provider - New Cards- Better Prices
From: John The Ripper
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Date Posted: 11:59:56 03/16/08 ()
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Candido writes:
"I am here, everyday, contributing, helping out... bringing service to my people..
Yes here.. in this "APC Newspaper site".. now.. tell me..
Should i? If we are not supposed to buy from anyshop with RED paint..?"
Man did you say you are "contributing, helping out and bringing service to your people? How's that?
What you are doing is ripping off an APC brother by advertising for free on this forum.
Subject: Calling Cards - New provider - New Cards- Better Prices
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 08:54:49 03/16/08 ()
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New store is www.CallsToAfrica.com
Calls To Africa
Subject: Revitalize education in Sierra Leone
From: Soriba Kanu
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Date Posted: 03:53:58 03/16/08 ()
Email Address: soribaibureh@hotmail.com
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It is true that no nation on earth has ever prosper without a proper educational system.
During and after the colonial rule in our country, education was highly rated and valued. Indeed Sierra Leoneans were boastful for their high standard of western education.
The question I would like to pose, What wnet wrong?
During the British in Sierra Leone, the curriculum was British, colonial system of education. After independence do we ever think of a national one.
Thanks be to Allah (God the Almighty)who blessed us with educated brains that I believe have the capabilty to revitalize education in our country when given the green light.
The government I am sure would put education as its top priority if it's here to shape the nation for the eventualities of the coming days.I would also like to squarely put it to the concerned authorites that our children will not forgive us if we failed to provide them with the adequate knowledge , particularly the university one.\
We, the parents would like to hear and see that our reputed lecturers return back to help carry the torch of knowledge to pass it to the present and future generations. We want to trash the fear that parents have in not sending their children especially girls for the thrilling fear that they might end up as dropouts, without fulfilling their life aspirations.
I was shocked when I browsed our FBC website. I realized that the number of girls graduating from the various faculties is far less than one can imagine. Compare to Nigeria, which is our role model today in everything. All those actresses you see in their movies are unversity graduates. My question again, what went wrong with our young girls???!!!
Reduce our fear by eradication the terrible horrible and negative cults that petrify well refined innocent students who purely want to join the university for education and nothing more.
Subject: Re: Revitalize education in Sierra Leone
From: APC Education
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Date Posted: 08:32:47 03/16/08 ()
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I thought President Koroma had all this figured out. Is this why college fees have doubled? BECE and WASCE fees have been reintroduced? Students do not have access to medical facilities? Teachers and lecturers have not been paid for 2 months, yet he is busy spending $5million extra on electricity? The new APC is revitalising education.
Subject: Testimony at the Charles Taylor Trial
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 03:37:49 03/16/08 ()
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1:20 - Marzah alleges Taylor cannibalism in secret society
Posted by Webmaster on March 14, 2008
The court session has resumed following the mid-morning break.
Lead Defense Counsel Courtenay Griffiths continues his cross-examination of prosecution witness Joseph D. “Zigzag” Marzah:
Def: Mr. Marzah, you were telling us that you’re a substantial property owner and businessman?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Did you get the money to set up that business from arms dealing?
Wit: No.
Def: Where did you get it from?
Wit: I got it from serving the government. And my wife is a businesswoman, and I have my own credit union.
Def: You set up that business solely from your earnings as a soldier under Doe and Taylor?
Wit: What I have is what my wife controls. My business and my wife’s business is not separate.
Def: You told us she has a large business. What kind?
Wit: She sells dry goods and palm oil from our palm oil factory. Apart from that we have cement she sells by bags. We sell rice and dry goods. Apart from that we have our own credit union and we have over 78 people who contribute towards it. We take the money from the credit union to buy goods and make more profit. People own credit in the club. They get profit from what they give. Those are some of the businesses. During Taylor’s regime, we even fought the war from Nimba up to Buchanan. Any safe we took by his directive we took to him. We took 7 safes from RIA airport to Taylor in Gbarnga. He gave me over 87,000 US dollars. Mosquito used to give me up to 1 million Leones when we brought diamonds.
Def: You made money from the Sierra Leone war?
Wit: Yes, through Charles Taylor.
Def: So the 3,417,000 in local currency given to you by the prosecution is not much for you?
Wit: I did not receive 3 million from anybody.
Def: These are the prosecution records. You’ve received [reads a series of figures in different figures]. That’s not a lot of money to you?
Wit: I did not receive such an amount. What I received, I will tell you if it is true. What I get was through myself and the struggle behind Charles Taylor. When we took the big diamond to Taylor he gave me an envelope with 2,000 dollars in it.
Def: I’m going by the records by the prosecution. You also received an additional 3,316,000 Leones?
Wit: Leones? I don’t know the difference of the Leone. I know US dollars and Liberian dollars. 300,000 Leones is 100 US dollars. If it’s Leones, maybe it could be true.
Def: There are a couple of matters to clear up before I put my case to you. You told us about the beating to death of Vice President Enoc Dogoleleh?
Wit: Yes.
Def: You were involved in that?
Wit: Yes, I told you Taylor said Dogoleleh was trying to liaise with the American government. Taylor passed orders to Yeaten in my presence. They pretended to travel together. They took Dogoleleh in a tinted car and took him to Yeaten’s, where he was beaten. Yeaten kept him there for three days.
Def: When was that?
Wit: I can’t remember the time. When Taylor was president in Monrovia.
Def: At Yeaten’s address?
Wit: Not Yeaten’s address. Behind Taylor’s house, in front of Yeaten’s house.
Def: Did Issa Sesay take diamonds to Charles Taylor?
Wit: One that I know about. He and I made a trip. Joe Tuoh used to go with him.
Def: You spoke of an occasion when you went with Bockarie to disarm some UN soldiers. When was that?
Wit: When Issa was in control of RUF. Taylor ordered us and we were reinforced with manpower and enough ammos, and we carried out the disarmament in Freetown. Issa Sesay came.
Def: You said Bockarie. Did you go with Bockarie to disarm some UN forces?
Wit: Bockarie was not in Sierra Leone during the UN deployment. It was Issa who was in Sierra Leone during the UN deployment. No, I did not go with Bockarie to disarm UN forces.
Def: You told us Wednesday you did.
Wit: No, I told you I went with Bockarie to disarm ECOMOG troops earlier in Sierra Leone.
Def: You told us about a massacre at Carter Camp at Harbel. Are you aware that the UN conducted an investigation of that, and that the investigation found that the forces responsible were the Armed Forces of Liberia?
Wit: I told you about the massacre.
Def: You suggested Taylor was responsible?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Were you aware that there was a UN investigation that found the AFL to be responsible?
Wit: I know about it, but I had no alternative to say any other thing. I could get up during his administration and say it was the NPFL. I would be dealt with.
Def: So you assumed he must be responsible because it was during the administration of Charles Taylor?
Wit: I’ll tell you the truth. The massacre was a directive from Charles Taylor.
Def: You’re just willing to attribute any bad thing that happened to Charles Taylor?
Wit: No. I’m here to tell the truth. I can’t say any other thing about my former leader.
Def: (references document): “witness stated Taiwanese used to send arms, ammunition and uniforms through Gus Kouwenhouven. The ships docked further out at sea.” Is that right?
Wit: It’s right, but it wasn’t the port of Monrovia. It was Buchanan. The boats would come and take the arms and ammunition, then load the ships with timber.
Def: How did you come to know about this?
Wit: I told you - I was chief of operations under Taylor. Even before then, he and I and very few others passed through.
Def: (displays a photo to the court)
Wit: I recall an old man who used to wear shades. This is the man who used to be at Buchanan port.
Def: You met him there? You picked up arms from him?
Wit: Yes, so many times.
Def: How many times?
Wit: I met Mr. Gus at Buchanan Port, even though I can’t recall the dates, it could be more than ten times. I was supposed to go on assignment with him. I made so many trips with him. I can’t explain them all. This man and another tall, big man with a big stomach - I saw this man and the other man move together.
Def: How many trips did that man make on ships bringing arms and ammunition into Buchanan?
Wit: I was not present for all these trips.
Def: How many times did you meat him in Buchanan Port?
Wit: This man is a good man to me, even though he did extremely well for me by offering me money - Mike Captan (?) - his chief of security. He was my junior officer.
Judge Doherty: That was not the question.
Wit: I met Mr. Gus over 5-6-7 times. If he said over 15 times, he would be telling a lie. But it was over five times.
Def: Each occasion was to receive arms from him?
Wit: Not all the times. The time he came with his friend with the big stomach I went to escort him. I received weapons more than three times.
Def: On how many times did you receive arms from Gus at Buchanan Port?
Wit: I said he himself was present more than three times. Each time we went, his chief of security, Mike Captan (?) was there. He was present. I was present. Over 3-4 times.
Def: On each of those occasions it was a large shipload of arms that arrived?
Wit: The ship would be over the sea, across the sea. The quantity of the ammo that I saw, sometimes they were in the speedboats. The big boat was over the ocean. Mike Captan and others would go and bring them, then put them in my car. Sometimes I took them from a warehouse. I can’t tell how much.
Def: Truckloads?
Wit: I made the trip with the Mack truck on three different occasions. We took them to White Flower, Taylor’s residence.
Def: Were you escorted by ECOMOG troops, escorted by Victor?
Wit: No.
Def: How did you get them there.
Wit: It was not the time of ECOMOG. Charles Taylor was president at the time.
Def: (references document) I suggest you’re a liar.
Wit: I am not a liar. If I were a liar I was going to accept a closed session to explain these things. I decided to do it in the open session so the public would see I’m telling you the truth.
Def: I suggest you’ve never sat with Taylor and never received orders from him.
Wit: I’m saying the facts.
Def: I suggest you’ve never spoken to him on either the phone or radio.
Wit: I spoke to him so many times, even before he established the poro society where we ate people’s livers. The reason whey Taylor trusted me was the poro society law. I started sitting with Taylor during the death of Fia Doe (?) and we ate his liver. The same thing happened with Sam Dokie. This woman Annie Yenie (?), she cooked the liver and Taylor shared it with us. He trusted me. Even the time he escaped from Ghana and we arrested Moses Blah, he was there in Ben’s veranda, and he said we should control those hearts until he came. When Taylor arrived, we took it and shared it.
Def: Have you got a fascination with eating human flesh?
Wit: Because what I’m saying, he and I passed through so many things that he trusts me. We ate human beings together. If you ask him he will tell you.
Def: You never spoke to Taylor on the phone or the radio, did you?
Wit: I did. I spoke with him on the phone and radio. We shook hands. We ate together in the poro society to safeguard our secret.
Def: When you say, Taylor gave orders to do anything, you’re assuming he did because he was president of Liberia?
Wit: Yes. I’m talking about more than the presidency. It was not because he was president of Liberia. I’m telling the truth.
Def: I suggest you did whatever you did without orders from Taylor.
Wit: During Taylor’s administration, there was no man to say he would do things his own way. Now I have disclosed to you the secrets of my poro society. Now I will no longer be a member. That is the secret, and that made him Dhakphana (sp?)
Judge Sebutinde: What do you mean?
Wit; Dhakphana is the big man who gives orders in the poro society. That is his poro society name. When you look at his face you will be shrouded in fear. He had authority.
Def: For what?
Wit: In order to control the republic.
Def: Are you saying you did all those wicked things out of fear?
Wit: We did it. It was because I was afraid and I was a part of it.
Def: Why are you crossing yourself? Is it because you’ve lied under oath?
Wit: I have broken the laws of my poro society. Everything has been exposed.
Def: I suggest you’re crossing yourself because under oath you’ve lied. And you’ve been lying for the last three days.
Wit: I’m saying the truth. From here you will see me appear before the TRC of Liberia - the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Defense has no further questions.
Prosecution has no questions on re-examination.
Judge Doherty: The bench has no questions for the witness.
One defense and one prosecution are formally entered into evidence.
Judge Doherty thanks and excuses the witness.
Prosecution: The prior witness (Isaac Mongor) is not available. We suggest we resume after the recess.
Defense agrees.
Presiding Judge Doherty: Court will adjourn early. The judicial recess begins on Monday. The trial will resume on March 31.
Subject: Nationalism: “to the last drop”
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 01:21:44 03/16/08 ()
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Yenga is an outstanding problem which the former government apparently did not include in a comprehensive peace deal that could have addressed all factions/ issues pertaining to the war.
“We pledge our devotion, our strength and our might,
Thy cause to defend and to stand for thy right;
All that we have be ever thine own,
Land that we love our Sierra Leone.”
Whereas His Excellency Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's humble pre-amble went something like,
paragraph 2 of his letter to President Lansana Conte: “My people are asking me, how it is that a good five years after the war has been officially over, Guinean troops are still occupying Yenga?"
We also have more firebrand Nationalism that no man says a bas to, not this Rev. Kabs Kanu kind of nationalism and some would say that it is this awareness of the present danger, that has led to inaction by both the former and the present government ( because they fear).
Once upon a time, it was merely a question of turning the other cheek…..
But if we had Rambo or Rev Kanu in the war cabinet, the enemy could be liable to psychological error, to have misunderstood the reality of Yenga to have always been within Sovereign Sierra Leone, no matter how the river banks may twist and turn.
and so,
he could easily jazz up the Cocorioko masses and beyond to deliver the ultimate message to the occupiers: “I advise you all to Pack Up and Go Back before it’s too late…”
Subject: BET’s Bob Johnson adds to the African luxury hotel surge
From: Liberia is on the move
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Date Posted: 18:28:27 03/15/08 ()
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In the past few years there’s been a bit of news coming out of new hotel projects taking place on the African continent. From the Hilton Hotels Group to the Rezidor Hotel Group it seems there’s a lot of interest in Africa as a luxury travel destination. Some will say that the shift is part of the overall change in the world’s political climate, where stories of terrorist attacks come out of former tourist “safe havens”. Whether that is the case or if it’s a result of the increased marketing and advertising efforts by African countries such as Tanzania, the fact is that developers are looking to Africa as a premiere destination for luxury travel. But it’s not just the large developers who are jumping onto the trend. Recently Charlotte Bobcats owner and BET founder Robert L. (Bob) Johnson along with a delegation of African American businesspeople announced an agreement with the government of Liberia to build a villa-style, four-star hotel in Monrovia. The project falls under Bob Johnson’s Maryland-based firm RLJ Companies, which with some 135 hotels valued at more than $3 billion, is the largest Black-owned hotel investment company in the United States. The Liberian hotel project is the result of a “commitment” made by Bob Johnson, Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO of BET, and actors Chris Tucker, Cicely Tyson, and actor Jeffrey Wright among others to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative Annual meeting. In addition to the hotel, which is scheduled to break ground in March 2008 and open in February 2009, Bob Johnson also donated $3 million to open a new fund which will “provide Liberian entrepreneurs and businesses with the financial and technical resources they need to rejuvenate the country’s economy and foster long-term stability in the wake of two decades of civil strife”.
What makes this story interesting, besides the kind of project the group chose to launch, is also the fact that - as I’ve reported numerous times on this site - African Americans are increasingly putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to Africa’s business development. And with Liberia being a country which was established as a place to send freed African-American slaves, what better place for a serious businessman like Bob Johnson to invest in. Black Enterprise Magazine quotes Andy Ingraham, President and CEO of the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers saying, “It’s important to note that this is part of an overall philanthropic effort by Robert Johnson, and you will see more African Americans not only doing increased business with the Caribbean and Africa, but also entering into philanthropic ventures….African American investors have been in talks with developing countries in Africa such as South Africa and Ghana, to build hotels.”. This is certainly a story to watch.
Subject: Re: BET’s Bob Johnson adds to the African luxury hotel surge
From: Let us lobby Bob Johnson
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Date Posted: 18:42:46 03/15/08 ()
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Where is the Sierra leonean Lobby Group/Firm to the Outside World?
Subject: Re: BET’s Bob Johnson adds to the African luxury hotel surge
From: SLPP dictatorship
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Date Posted: 19:55:05 03/15/08 ()
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There are so many people who would like to invest in Sierra Leone for a change but the SLPP mafia, still sore over the trouncing they received in the last elections, will not give the country a chance. They have decided on the slogan of "No power for SLPP, no peace for Sierra Leone!"
SLPP please!
Please give investment a chance!
Subject: Prosecution witness “finishes testimony, and says
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 17:51:12 03/15/08 ()
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Prosecution witness “Zigzag” Marzah finishes testimony, says Taylor ate human hearts
Posted by Webmaster on March 14, 2008
March 14, 2008
Prosecution witness Joseph D. “Zigzag” Marzah concluded his testimony in dramatic fashion today, ahead of a two-week break in the trial. Angered by defense counsel suggestions that he was never close to Charles Taylor, Marzah alleged that he, Taylor and Benjamin Yeaten were all in the same poro society (a traditional West African secret religious society) and that Taylor himself had eaten human hearts with him on multiple occasions. Marzah appeared shaken and crossed himself, explaining that he had broken the laws of his poro society and exposed its secrets.
Throughout the day, Lead Defense Counsel Courtenay Griffiths continued to point to discrepancies between Marzah’s testimony and earlier statements he had given to the prosecution. Griffiths also continued to argue that Marzah was not senior enough in the NPFL to have taken orders from Taylor, that arms shipments from Liberia to Sierra Leone would have been impossible while ECOMOG peacekeepers controlled the roads and airports, and that Marzah was simply lying. Griffiths suggested that prosecution payments to Marzah gave him a reason to lie about Taylor.
At one point during the morning court went into a brief private session when Griffiths wanted to pose questions to the witness that raised witness protection concerns. It then returned to open session.
Did ECOMOG prevent or assist arms deliveries to Sierra Leone?
Griffiths asked Marzah about the period of the interim government in Liberia, and Marzah agreed that in 1996-1997 there were many peacekeepers from the Economic Community of West African States in Liberia, although he couldn’t say how many. Marzah agreed that these mostly Nigerian ECOMOG peacekeepers were based at Roberts International Airfield, the Buchanan Port, and stationed at checkpoints along all major and minor roads in the country. Even before Griffiths challenged Marzah about how he could have shipped weapons and ammunition to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone at Taylor’s orders if ECOMOG controlled these routes, Marzah alleged that some Nigerian officers in ECOMOG were corrupt and had been bribed by Taylor. Specifically, he testified that a Nigerian captain named Victor (not General Victor Malu, he said) had been assigned to Taylor’s residence, and had arranged for Taylor and his men to transport weapons through the airport, and past checkpoints in ECOMOG vehicles. Marzah couldn’t recall the officer’s surname, but said he had been shot and wounded in an attack on the Executive Mansion. Marzah testified that some Nigerians with ECOMOG assisted the onward delivery of weapons and ammunition to Sierra Leone, in connivance with Taylor.
Marzah couldn’t say where this Nigerian Captain, Victor, had lived, at which point Griffiths asked why he wouldn’t know such a thing if Marzah had really been as important as he claimed. Marzah replied that he was the third highest official in Liberia after Taylor and Yeaten due to their shared membership in a poro society. At this point, he said that he had eaten human beings with Charles Taylor.
Griffiths asked Marzah why he had never previously mentioned this bribery scheme relating to ECOMOG to prosecution investigators. Marzah answered that there was so much to tell about what he had done, and that he answered questions as they came.
Griffiths asked Marzah about the UN-supervised disarmament at the time of the interim government. Marzah testified that only the “ugly” (damaged) weapons had been destroyed, and that Taylor had ordered the good weapons buried, and transport some to Gbarnga. They had been assisted in this by the Nigerian officer, Victor.
Griffiths suggested to Marzah that he was lying about taking arms and ammunition to Sierra Leone for Taylor, that in 1996-1997 this would have been impossible due to the ECOMOG presence, and that any weapons Marzah had sold to the RUF had been done privately for his own gain. Marzah denied lying, and testified that anyone acting without Taylor’s orders would have been risking their life.
Other defense challenges
In the late morning, Griffiths asked Marzah if he had been using his mobile phone during bathroom breaks in the previous days’ testimony to receive instructions from someone outside the courtroom. Marzah said his phone hadn’t worked since the beginning of his testimony, and he was angry about that because he couldn’t even call his family. He said court security had told him that his phone would not function again until his testimony was over. He told Griffiths to ask security about the phone if he wanted to.
When Griffiths suggested that Marzah was testifying in exchange for payments from the prosecution, Marzah said he had a large palm and rubber farm, and that he and his wife ran several businesses, so that the amounts from the prosecution to cover his expenses meant little to him. Griffiths suggested that Marzah got the money for the farm and the businesses through private arms dealing. Marzah replied that he made his money while working as a soldier in the Doe and Taylor regimes, and stated he had received large payments from Taylor, including one after seven safes were stolen at Roberts International Airfield and taken to Taylor at Gbarnga.
Griffiths recalled Marzah’s earlier testimony about Taylor being responsible for the Camp Carter massacre at Harbel, and asked him if he was aware that a United Nations investigation found it to be the responsibility of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Marzah insisted that Taylor had been responsible, but there was no way he would have told the investigators about NPFL involvement during Taylor’s administration, or he would have been “dealt with”.
Marzah described Taiwanese arms deliveries brought by Gus Kouwenhoven in ships after Taylor had been elected president. Griffiths entered into evidence a recent ruling by a Dutch appeals court that overturned Kouwenhoven’s conviction of breaking the arms embargo on Liberia and asserted that Marzah was lying.
Allegation that Taylor engaged in cannibalism
Griffiths put to Marzah that he had never sat with Taylor and received orders from him, and that he had never spoken with Taylor on the phone or radio. Marzah responded heatedly that he spoke to Taylor “so many times, even before he established the poro society where we ate people’s livers”. (In earlier testimony, Marzah stated that when he said “liver”, he meant the human heart.) Marzah continued, saying that the reason Taylor trusted him was because of the poro society law. He said that Taylor had participated in eating the heart of Fiah Doe and Sam Dokie, and named a woman whom he said had cooked Dokie’s heart for them. He continued, saying that when Taylor escaped from Ghana, he had called Yeaten to prepare two hearts, and the three had shared them upon his return.
Griffiths again put to Marzah that he had never spoken with Taylor on the phone or radio, or taken orders from him. Marzah said that they ate together in the poro society “to safeguard our secret”. He stated, “Now I have disclosed to you the secrets of my poro society”, and said he would no longer be a member. He said Taylor had been the Dankpannah, the big man who gives orders in the poro society. “When you look at his face, you will be shrouded in fear. He had authority.” Marzah crossed himself, and Griffiths asked whether he was crossing himself because he had just lied under oath. Marzah answered that he had broken the laws of his poro society, and that everything has been exposed.
Griffiths again asserted that Marzah was lying. Marzah insisted he was telling the truth, and said he would appear before Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Defense had no further questions, and prosecution had no questions on redirect examination. The judges also had no questions for Marzah, and he was excused.
The trial session ended. There will be a two-week judicial recess beginning on Monday. The trial resumes on March 31.
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Subject: No Fighting Over Yenga
From: Yenga
To: All
Date Posted: 16:15:33 03/15/08 ()
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Entered From: c-69-140-252-103.hsd1.va.comcast.net at 69.140.252.103
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Minister of Defense retired Major Paulo Conteh said that Government intends to utilize diplomatic means to peacefully resolve the issue of Yenga than going into war. Speaking to UN Radio Mr. Conteh reminded Sierra Leoneans about the enviable role played by Guinea during the decade long civil war. In keeping with the bilateral ties that exists between the two countries he said, the issue of Yenga must be treated cautiously.
On the issue of downsizing of the army, Mr. Conteh said Sierra Leone has the second largest army in the sub region noting that, in order to have a leaner, fitter and well catered for army, there is a need to downsize. “There is no point having a bigger force without adequately providing for them,” the defense Minister was quoted as saying. He explained that the downsizing exercise will be done in phases. The first phase will target the wounded in action, the chronically ill and mentally ill personnel and the final phase will involve those who have reached retirement age and those who will voluntarily go on retirement.
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Subject: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 15:45:44 03/15/08 ()
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Message:
One thing I can say here is that this time if anybody sparks trouble in Sierra Leone, we shall defend our country with every blood in our veins. We will not allow Sierra Leone to slip into anarchy again or for our innocent , poor people to suffer any more.
Those threatening violence in Sierra Leone because it is APC that is in power better stop it, because this time they will meet a determined people resolved to fight to the last drop of blood to make sure that constitutional democracy , the rule of law and peace prevail in the country.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 01:52:16 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Rev. Kanu,
You are
"resolved to fight to the last drop of blood to make sure that constitutional democracy , the rule of law and peace prevail in the country."
Really?
Indeed, Yenga is an outstanding problem which the former government apparently did not include in a comprehensive peace deal that could have addressed all factions/ issues pertaining to the war.
“We pledge our devotion, our strength and our might,
Thy cause to defend and to stand for thy right;
All that we have be ever thine own,
Land that we love our Sierra Leone.”
Whereas His Excellency Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's humble pre-amble went something like,
paragraph 2 of his letter to President Lansana Conte: “My people are asking me, how it is that a good five years after the war has been officially over, Guinean troops are still occupying Yenga?"
We also have more firebrand Nationalism that no man says a bas to, not this Rev. Kabs Kanu kind of nationalism and some would say that it is this awareness of the present danger, that has led to inaction by both the former and the present government ( because they fear).
Once upon a time, it was merely a question of turning the other cheek…..
But if we had Rambo or Rev Kanu in the war cabinet, the enemy could be liable to psychological error, to have misunderstood the reality of Yenga to have always been within Sovereign Sierra Leone, no matter how the river banks may twist and turn.
and so,
the Rev. could easily jazz up the Cocorioko masses and beyond to deliver the ultimate message to the occupiers: “I advise you all to Pack Up and Go Back before it’s too late…”
Churches, Louis Farrakhan,Pastor Manning, Racism, Revs and Pastors as political actors are getting to be very important in politics these days. They are the ones who are blowing against the rotten wind.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
To: All
Date Posted: 02:11:44 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: c-071271d5.01-32-73746f42.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se at 213.113.18.7
Message:
Having mentioned him - Obama makes matters clear....
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 17:30:53 03/15/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-67-232-9-206.dhcp.embarqhsd.net at 67.232.9.206
Message:
Reverend, who is "we"? What constitutes the "we" in your ominous remarks above?
You mean to volunteer your services in defending "our country with every blood in (y)our veins"? Too bad you did not advertise that statement at an earlier age during the ghastly 11-year war, which is directly attributable to the activities of those you now support.
I may have missed it, but is someone "threatening violence in Sierra Leone because it is APC that is in power"? News to me. Would you please report these "malcontents" to the authorities so that possible legal action can be taken against them in order to prevent another senseless catastrophe on our "poor people" in the future?
Another hypothesis is needed in this regard. The "bad loser syndrome" must now be buried, so that we can come to terms with what obtains on the ground in SL in order to solve national problems together.
Agreed, the rule of law and peace MUST prevail in that country. That is why we are on al3rt in serving our function in the opposition.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Saloneboy
To: All
Date Posted: 09:14:47 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 163-66-ftth.onsneteindhoven.nl at 88.159.66.163
Message:
One thing we want the SLPP tribalists and blood suckers to know that if they start their devilish act to remove the APC governmnet through violence, some of us will take the next available flight to defend democracy in Sierra Leone. 1992 they succeded because the masses did not like the road the APC put Sierra Leone. But, today, the masses have been able to distinguish a tribal SLPP from a transformed APC that has brought light in the country within four months of its ascendancy.
These obnoxious tribal SLPPers will lick their vomit if they dream of bringing chaos in our country. They think their mafia group will pawn Sierra Leone again to the highest bidder!
This tribalists are very wicked and their mafia group will be destroyed now we have known their devilish trick. The BS mafia will never subjugate the majority of Sierra Leoneans any longer. We will be ready to sacrifice our blood and if need be our life to maintain democracy.
Woe unto these tribalists and mafia group members who are spreading wicked lies on the new people and awarenesstimes to tarnish a progressive APC.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Sengbe small axe
To: All
Date Posted: 19:30:49 03/15/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Who is the rebel "we"? YOU Sengbe! You are one of those tribal hegemonists in Sierra Leone who will not rest until you overthrow the APC government of a certain fella who carries the last name of Koroma. But of course you are too much of a coward to own up to your dark hopes, right? I will join the patriots to oppose any muscular illegality by plotters and saboteurs in SaLon. Wanna try, my meh?
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 19:46:48 03/15/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-67-232-9-206.dhcp.embarqhsd.net at 67.232.9.206
Message:
Not guilty as charged.
Mi sidom na America u day call me rebel na SaLon?
Why would I want to "overthrow the APC" when my cousin runs her?
In time the "APC Government of certain fella" will be the one to overthrow herself, if she does not serve the people right in exercising her mandate to their satisfaction. We merely try to educate them, as it is our duty to do so in opposition.
Why all this warmongering on this site? It certainly is not coming from our side. We may be reacting to it based on evidence obtainable from the home front in the last six to nine months of this infancy.
Opposing ideas in governance does not constitute a latent intent to declare war.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: The Nationalist
To: All
Date Posted: 05:38:41 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Oh no, Sengbe. The war-mongering is coming from all of you SLPP. We are not stupid,Sengbe. SLPP is advocating violence in Sierra Leone. Everybody knows that. They know from your statements and newspaper writings.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Sengbe small axe
To: All
Date Posted: 20:12:18 03/15/08 ()
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Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Sengbe, the fulminations and frothy canards of the SLPPuffadders is nothing short of guerilla warfare. You think it is just an expression of democracy? Mi mans, you are way smarter than that. What is going on is not a constitutional kick-the-bums-out strategy that any opposition party worth its salt should go all out to accomplish. Nay! What your party and its Nankashee propaganda serpents (Gongoli Times and New Lie-lie People newspapers) are doing is a full frontal attack on the democratic mandate of the people. From questioning the legitimacy of Ernest Koroma's win, the defecating on the president's portrait in Bo, the hiring of thugs to intimidate APC supporters in Bo, the libellous charges solely intended to sow chaos in the country, to the determined effort to oppose everything and ominously threaten Bush warfare on a my-way-or-the-highway-trip, SLPP is not simply an opposition party, it is a caboodle ready to hit the jungle with AK-47s before 2012. What a shame!
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 20:33:44 03/15/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
"...SLPP is not simply an opposition party, it is a caboodle ready to hit the jungle with AK-47s before 2012. What a shame!..."
I do not believe in that hyperbole for a minute.
What do "we" stand to gain by inciting "guerilla warfare" in SaLon at this time, or at any time in the past, and in the future?
Dondo!!
And the peoples of the land will not stand for it.
Y'all need to check yourselves before you wreck yourselves.
I hate to go back on this, but the intimidation, thuggery, violence, and most of the mayhem experienced recently, was reportedly affirmed in y'alls pointed direction. And that is a fact.
Your hypothesis in this regard will only lead to a theorem when very drastic anti-democratic measures are imposed on the peoples of SaLon by the new government.
Please stop putting a pun on my moniker. I earned mine.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Take this moniker and........Chill!
To: All
Date Posted: 22:01:00 03/15/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
True that Sengbe. You have indeed earned the Sengbe moniker and I apologise for punning it. However, I believe with every sinew in my bright red carriage that you Green Boys are up to no constitutional good. You guys are either cavemanning a very primitive brand of opposition politics or a stink-the-joint-till-God-damns-us garden variety. Either way, your strategy stinks to high Heaven. I know for a fact that the other parties gave SLPP democratic space in the eleven years it ruined the country. We the opposition in those days accepted the people's mandate and saluted Tejan Kabbah as our president despite serious doubts about the veracity of the polls. We then struggled in the opposition back benches for years before kicking out the Great SLPP Corruptocracy. No one burned effigies of Kabba in the North or West. Kabba was our president.
What, my dear Sengbe, did SLPP do after they were defeated by APC?: Challenging the election results. Tarring and feathering Dr Christina Thorpe in the green slander sheets. Making a concerted effort to tar the president as a parochial, Northern president. Yelps of Northernization. Libelous propagandist stories day and night. Hiring a Ninja hitman (woman?) to spew venom and incite chaos. Not contributing one iota of ideas to help solve the problems but readily waving placards to demonstrate for El Gongolista.
Sengbe, oppose if you may, just spare us an early campaign for 2012 just 6 months after the last election.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Sengbe
To: All
Date Posted: 23:09:26 03/15/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: nc-67-232-9-206.dhcp.embarqhsd.net at 67.232.9.206
Message:
Well the truth is the truth, and so must it be reported.
"...However, I believe with every sinew in my bright red carriage that you Green Boys are up to no constitutional good..."
How so?
Isn't it a bit late for that? It could have been better done during the elections, but no! Not the SLPP.
Y'alls must have the jitters. What are you so jittery about?
"...You guys are either cavemanning a very primitive brand of opposition politics or a stink-the-joint-till-God-damns-us garden variety. Either way, your strategy stinks to high Heaven..."
Complain! Complain!! Complaints!!!
We have only just begun to peel off your thin political skins, and you are crying ruf-style already.
"...I know for a fact that the other parties gave SLPP democratic space in the eleven years it ruined the country. We the opposition in those days accepted the people's mandate and saluted Tejan Kabbah as our president despite serious doubts about the veracity of the polls. We then struggled in the opposition back benches for years before kicking out the Great SLPP Corruptocracy. No one burned effigies of Kabba in the North or West. Kabba was our president..."
What do you mean by "the other parties gave SLPP democratic space" in this context?
If I understand you correctly, then true democracy was given a rebirth during the Kabba years in Sa Lon. So, what choice did the other parties have but to follow in the good steps of that practice.
And Ernest is now our president until he is voted out in four and a half years. No one has burnt an effigy of him, that I know about, in the South and East.
He was satirized, and his portrait was re-painted green and then orange by some disgruntled folks regarding the impropriety of putting the partisan-colored portrait at that public tower in the first place shunning regular protocol. The violent repercussion by the party in power is what pointed out to the indiscipline within her ranks.
The SLPP was within her constituional boundaries in challenging the election results, but no sooner the futility in that exercise was observed than it was abandoned.
I don't believe that Ms. Thorpe has been "tarred and feathered in the green slander sheets", as you have erroneously stated. Those newspapers conducted thorough research before publishing articles pertinent to that event. And the numbers they calculated would have yielded the correct results if 477 disqualifications were not "fraudulently" sustained.
"...Making a concerted effort to tar the president as a parochial, Northern president..."
The evidence is ther for all to see. By his actions, we shall characterize him.
"... Yelps of Northernization..."
The truth is kind of hard to swallow sometimes.
"...Libelous propagandist stories day and night..."
Y'alls should know, that is why we lost the elections in the first place. Have you not been reading articles in the SaLon media?
"...Hiring a Ninja hitman (woman?) to spew venom and incite chaos..."
I don't think that woman can be bought, or sold.
"... Not contributing one iota of ideas to help solve the problems but readily waving placards to demonstrate for El Gongolista..."
Maybe this is the reason EBK took opposition members, Momo Pujeh, Nyuma and Bio, on one of his junkets; to share ideas?
The curtailment of fundamental freedoms must never be encouraged in a democracy. I am happy that they waved the placards in her behalf. Democracy, and freedom of speech are welcomed in the SLPP. That is why it is hard for me to change allegiance.
BTW is the Larry of AoL fame? How are you doing?
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Take this moniker and........Chill!
To: All
Date Posted: 01:15:41 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Boss Sengbe, I must say I enjoyed the way you attempted to eviscerate my posting with a butcher's knife. The truth however cannot be butchered. I still stand by my contentions.
I am already looking forward to 2012. The country is gonna see real progress. And now that we seem to have withstood the sink from the SLPP attack machine, we can now work like hell to establish a serious record of achievement to show the electorate in 2012. So my green friends, continue to criticize EBK. We dae go befoe!
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Concerned
To: All
Date Posted: 17:16:02 03/15/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 204.14.42.190
Message:
Kabs pls throw more light and stop speaking in parable
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: Concerned Citizen
To: All
Date Posted: 16:52:53 03/15/08 ()
Email Address: epa@gmail.com
Entered From: adsl-68-74-112-18.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net at 68.74.112.18
Message:
Kabs!!! What's going on back home? I would imagine something is brewing in the background!!! Would it be about Yenga or???????
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: MEDKAY
To: All
Date Posted: 18:20:55 03/15/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 85.136.103.235.dyn.user.ono.com at 85.136.103.235
Message:
The question goes to war mongers,for those who seems that they are fighters,be you local or who ever you call yourselves,this time around we know how to defend our government,the only government in mama sierra leone.Long live six month old apc government,long live president EARNEST KOROMA,Long live democracy.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our veins
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 18:16:22 03/15/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
There is nothing specific on the ground but some of the rhetoric we are hearing from SLPP operatives and writers in the print and online newspapers and in forums are disturbing. It is as if people want to stir chaos in the country . Some of the comments are deliberately inflammatory and could inflame passions , given the fragile nature of peace in the country.
If there is hard times in Sierra Leone and skyrocketting prices, who is to blame ? It is not the new government. As President Ernest Koroma himself said last week, it is due to the WORLD-WIDE ECONOMIC TRENDS.
Are things any better for us in the U.S ? This week, I paid PSEG $800 for gas and electricity alone. Few years back, our bills used to be about $200, BUT BECAUSE FUEL PRICES HAVE INCREASED AND WE BUY GAS $3: 09 HERE RIGHT NOW, IT HAS GONE WAY UP. AMERICANS ARE NOT BLAMING PRESIDENT BUSH BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT IS A WORLD-WIDE PROBLEM. If some of you pay mortgages, you know that in New Jersey, you don't pay less than $2,000 monthly now for any decent house. And it is bound to go up when Governor Corzine's economic policies begin biting. Let the madam stay home and watch TV and you try doing some groceries and see how much food prices are skyrocketting right under our noses in a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY. Where you used to spend $100, if you don't add another $150 now, you will come home with nothing to last you for a reasonable time. And things are bound to get worse. Because of Governor Corzine's cuts to the budget in New Jersey, fears abound that there could be hospital closings and massive layoff of nurses and health care personnel. Schools will also not be untouched.We are soon coming to the era of jampacked classrooms as teachers could also get laid off. With foreclosures now hitting high notes, if the situation continues and mortgages keep rising every year, expect to see homelessness increasing dramatically.
You find the situation even worse in other industrialized countries.
Why is Freetown full of JJCs looking for jobs ? It is because the idealized Western economic boom is fast coming to an end.Infact, I have a lengthy article on that.
I remember when I first came to America in the early 1990s, you could get an apartment in split-level, high -scale complexes like Birchwood Court for $500.But today, even in lowly and slumy Edgemere, you can't get even one room for $500. It is over $1,000. Renting is now more expensive than a mortgage , so to speak. You can only rent a one-room apartment now for $1,200-500.
Life, as we can see , is tough everywhere.
Have you listened lately to Ghanaians ? You want a Ghanaian to get mad with you and insult you ? Try telling him/her that her country is the Western model of economic advancement. He/she will ask you to go try buying foodstuffs at the Accra markets and see. One piece of yam to prepare dorkunnu or Koko is over 5,000 cedis.You have not even bought fish, crabs and palm oil yet to go with the yam. For a family of more than two, some Ghanaians say the costs of a week's food shopping is above the monthly salary. What about neighbouring Liberia ? We use to buy petrol $1-2 a gallon and rice $20 a bag. Today, one bag of rice is nearly L$200 and petrol is about L$150 a gallon.
Therefore, why all these threats about Sierra Leone sitting on a timebomb ? Are we the only nation suffering from the world-wide downward economic trend ?
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our v
From: Dread
To: All
Date Posted: 00:18:53 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 32.146.160.248
Message:
So labs are you telling us that things will not get better under the APC
because of all the observations you have outlined?
Well let me tell you this, if you paid $800.00 this month for gas and
electricity alone, then you have not being paying your bills. We all live
in America and unless you are operating a factory out of your
basement you should not be running up bills like that.
The second point is that in the profile of you for the piece on your
birthday, It was mentioned that you lived in Liberia for twelve years
before you came to the US. If you came here in the early 90s as you
stated, then except for some visits you have been away from Sierra
Leone for close to 30s years, but still lecture others about patriotism.
Honestly Kabs, Sierra Leone is not as divided as you guys out here
would like people to believe.
On the point of defending Sierra Leone with all the blood in your vein,
we patriotic Sierra Leoneans are praying that the bloodshed you are
advocating will never again happen in our own lifetime. While you were
here enjoying the American life, some of us were in refugee camps
after having seen our loved ones slaughtered in front of our own eyes.
While reading Cocorioko the other day, a friend of mine noted that the
reason why you were asking for people's pictures was most likely
because you want to pass this on to the APC so they can put a face to
their critics. I just want to warn you Kabs, a lot of Sierra Leoneans
here are US citizens whether you like that or not and setting them up
for persecution is a problem you honestly don't want to deal with. Just
as you are always threatening that you are watching people, we also
have our eyes on you and will continue to send these inflammatory
articles to the appropriate authorities.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our v
From: Electricity
To: All
Date Posted: 08:04:48 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: pool-71-255-238-70.washdc.east.verizon.net at 71.255.238.70
Message:
Kabs is correct. I have been paying more than $380 each for gas and electricity each month recently.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our v
From: Kabs Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 08:51:07 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Thank you, my dear. Some of these guys open their mouths just so that they would hinder the flow of valuable information. Even the guy whose office is next to mine said he paid about $800 this past month.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our v
From: The Nationalist
To: All
Date Posted: 05:17:51 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: h167-156-253.63.chubb.com at 167.156.63.253
Message:
Dread,
I think you have taken Kabs Kanu out of context. First of all, I have paid $636 myself for gas and electricity during the past two months. As Kabs pointed out, it used to be in the region of $200 but due to the increase in the 200%increase in gasoline, the charges have tripled .It is reasonable to pay that amount if you consume a lot of heating gas this winter. Second of all, I understand where Kabs is coming from. SLPP is very busy advocating violence , chaos and war in Sierra Leone. If you read the online newspapers like the New People, Awareness Times, Mariama Kandeh's article in Concord , and the print newspapers like The Democrat , the Vision , all they are advocating is war. If you read between the lines, they are trying to incite the people of the South/East to go back to war. You know they started the RUF war. They want the same thing to happen again. Look at the statements by Dr. Sama Banya, John Benjamin and Jacob Saffa, they are all designed to incite the people to war. Kabs is more or less warning you all now that if you carry war to Sierra Leone again this time, you will meet "a resolved people ", to quote his exact words, who will not allow you to succeed. That I support too. You SLPP must get past your defeat in the elections. You are too power-conscious . You have to realise you can't always be in power. Inciting war in your country because you lost an elections ? What kind of unpatriotism is that ? You SLPP are a disgrace to democracy.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our v
From: Natty Dread
To: All
Date Posted: 00:44:01 03/16/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
"... you were asking for people's pictures was most likely because you want to pass this on to the APC so they can put a face to their critic"......Dread.
Dear Mr Dread,
Do you see how ridiculous you sound? Already a little paradoid, hmmmm, small boy? Don't worry, you are an American. No one is conspiring to chock your ass in jail. Nor panic ya! Pademba Road and Mafanta are not for you at all. We have a democracy now. I am just amazed at the way you have completely spun an incisive, patriotic posting by Kabs into a partisan banshee from the insecurities of your smarmy SLPP mind. Hope you enjoyed the bulgor and corn meal at the refugee camp you now hold up as a badge of honor. Bo go lidon sleep ya.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our v
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 05:32:19 03/16/08 ()
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He still thinks thatthe SLPP,which killed journalists like Harry Yansaneh and Conrad Roy and attempted to assassinate other journalists like Hilton Fyle, Dennis Smith, IB Kargbo etc are still in power.
You know the power of the subconscious mind. It is embedded in his subconscious mind that the undemocratic atmosphere under the SLPP still obtains in Sierra Leone.He has refused to see that we have a new dispensation now in Sierra Leone.
What is more, he knows how his silly self and other SLPP vigilantes set up people and burnt them on the streets .He feels other people are like them. At times we try to see ourselves in other people.
Some of these guys have allowed politics to make them retrogressive in their thinking.Otherwise, how can a so-called civilized person living in a civilized country like this allow his moronic mind to think the retrogressive way he is thinking ? This should just tell you all the kinds of unpatriotic people we are up against.
This is why I want to appeal to all Sierra Leoneans. Let us not allow them to succeed to bring chaos to our good country once again. To these people, all that matters is the SLPP and the South/East. To us, all that matters is the interest of Sierra Leone.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our v
From: Dread
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Date Posted: 03:49:44 03/16/08 ()
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Won't dignify ignorance with a response.
Subject: Re: We shall defend Sierra Leone with all the blood in our v
From: Natty Dread
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Date Posted: 06:04:07 03/16/08 ()
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"Won't dignify ignorance with a response".....Dread
Whatever!!!
Subject: RE Sengbe, gold etc.
From: KLA
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Date Posted: 15:11:05 03/15/08 ()
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"... a million ounces of gold from deposits at BAOMAHUN alone!..." KLA
"A million ounces times about a thousand dollars per ounce equals a billion dollars of gross revenue from this area alone.
KLA, where is the geographic locat1on of Boamahun in SL? South? East? West? North? Province? District? Chiefdom? Section?...... Sengbe
The numbers look quite good. It may be close to your chiefdom.
"The Baomahun deposit is located about 180km east of the capital, Freetown, in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. The geological setting is similar to Lake Victoria goldfields in Tanzania. Geochemical soil sampling is underway to investigate the presence of additional mineralization zones.
Viewed from the primary gold target known as the Eastern Zone, the geographical relationship can be seen that exists between the primary, in-situ gold mineralization and the alluvial gold in the valley. The slopes between the source and the valley have in the past been worked by both local miners and medium scale operators.".....CLUFF GOLD.
Visit the Mano river resources site for more info.
visit www.sierragoldcorp.com/ for some serious info.
tstm
xx
Subject: Re: RE Sengbe, gold etc.
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 17:36:34 03/15/08 ()
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Thanks for the information, KLA.
Subject: Re: RE Sengbe, gold etc.
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 15:42:41 03/15/08 ()
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Dear KLA:
The $1,000-per-ounce price for gold is for refined gold delivered to the buyer in acceptable form and not the raw stuff underground in SLeone.
To get refined gold to a buyer, the raw gold must be commercially mined, purified, shaped into standard gold blocks and transported to where the demand is. This process requires capital, management and political leadership.
Until we can put these factors together in a consistent and reliable way that is fair to all stakeholders, I deeply regret to say that SL won't be able to realize much benefit from what God has donated to us.
As we all know, the failure to harness the wealth from our natural resources in the public interest has been SLeone's major failing since Independence.
Subject: Re: RE Sengbe, gold etc.
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 18:13:21 03/15/08 ()
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"...To get refined gold to a buyer, the raw gold must be commercially mined, purified, shaped into standard gold blocks and transported to where the demand is. This process requires capital, management and political leadership..." JEL
This leads to industrialization. Precisely what we need to develop that country in the future.
The APCerians must realize the didacticism in our statements on the opposing side.
All of us want SaLon to move on up on the global stage of progress and development.
We are NOT "sore losers". No matter what the Revo may state.
Subject: Re: RE Sengbe, gold etc.
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 19:07:46 03/15/08 ()
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Yes Karmor Sengbe,
Subject: Re: RE Sengbe, gold etc.
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 19:32:23 03/15/08 ()
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Thank you again, Bra Cornie.
Sweet Haitian music indeed.
Subject: Sierra Leone have more politicians than reformers
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 12:51:09 03/15/08 ()
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If you want to draw the attention of those who uses this forum, you would better start a thread with political attachments anything less than that would be ignored. Sierra Leone is facing the serious problem of reform but when you painstakingly start a thread for ways of exploring our potential wealth that merit thorough discussion, its thrown in the gutters. Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora today have huge interests in the political war that's currently going on in the country than the need for transformation.
Sierra Leone needs an immediate recovery from her economic mess, some of the solutions to these problems lay beneath our feet, we need commitment and vision before we can unfold the potential wealth but whenever someone try to bring them to light, others will look at you as if your suggestions are from another planet little did they know that if only consideration is given to some of these suggestions, there are potential solutions to our problems.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone have more politicians than reformers
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 12:58:21 03/15/08 ()
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Please do not be discouraged. We are not used to innovative ideas. You must keep plugging on until your ideas are thoroughly understood for purposes of discussion and implementation.
What solutions have you suggested?
Subject: Centralized Activities/Services in the Governance of SaLon
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 11:51:11 03/15/08 ()
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I remember that we toiled for many years on-line debating the issue of decentralized governance in Sa Lon. Governance that was centralized during the 24-year misrule of the APC. Decentralization won over centralization of governance during the SLPP's 10-year rule. Hopefully, it would continue under the auspices of the new APC-led GoSL.
But there are certain activities or some services-to-be-rendered which must remain centralized in the sense that the primary responsibility largely falls on the shoulders of the GoSL. I guess most of us know this already.
The activitities and services which are in the primary domain of the GoSL are largely in the provision of; security, power and energy, agriculture and food security, health, the funding finance needed for national development / prosperity, and the generation of the conducive atmosphere for investment - foreign and domestic - in order to create wealth and meaningful comprehensive employment for those who need it.
These are responsibilities that cannot be solely delegated in a decentralized fashion of governance. But if the oversight is strong and genuine, these responsibilities can be 'overseered' by the national governors at the local level through decentralized governance. This means that the GoSL is primarily responsible for providing the tools and wherewithal necessary for the satisfaction of the goals and objectives derivable from the missions of these sectors in governance.
Based on the aforementioned, the manpower categories available to the central government are few: the civil servants; the military; the police; the parliamentarians; the judges and magistrates in the judiciary; and appointments in the parastatals. Is there another manpower category? Several?
The only category in this group that would serve a nation such as ours in a disciplined didactic / pedagogic kind of way on a massive scale in a shorter time span is the military.
Please y'all! remember that the military / soldiers are no longer just fighters in a war, but nation-builders. The last time I checked, the only activity threatening the hard-won peace in that country is the Yenga issue. No one else in the MRU neighborhood, or the global village, seems to be a threat as of this moment.
So! what do we do with the boys and girls in uniform who pledged their livelihoods to the national course, patriotically, during times of calm, especially since they are so well-trained and equipped - as we are told?
You put them to work in building/rebuiliding the nation.[And this includes the idle ex-combatants acting as tonton macoutes in na we Sa Lon presently.] You allow the well-disciplined army boys to supervise in exerting discipline amongst the general populace through the enhancement of literacy, agriculture / farming, mining, fishing, physical fitness, and other forms of activities that are for the national benefit/interest, rewardingly.
The 'cadres' in the political parties can also serve in the strides to promote the national interest in a decentralized way; especially in the enhancement of literacy within the general populace.
The generation of wealth through the "exploitation" of our natural endowments can be 'overseered' by the uniformed personel in collaboration with selfless civilians.
The wealth so generated would be disbursed and invested in the national interest for development, and other purposes, that would satiate the 5 million? indigenes of the nation everlastingly.
In this dispensation, changes could be made in suitable ways that would not deviate from the course of modernization in the national development of SL.
We must start to earn the dues needed to develop our nation in the same mold as the Tiger nations in Asia.
We must NOT continue to "sit on a bed of gold", and continue to be hungry. What sense does that make?
We must learn to harness our resources for the betterment of the nation ourselves, eventhough we may not be able to refuse rendered help from the outside in the beginning.
We must have trust in ourselves, and change our attitudes for the better.
If you lie on a "bed of gold", and wake up with "fleas" all the time, the blame lies on you.
Our partners in development will only continue to be when they continue to gain more than we gain from what the Most High has bestowed upon us as a nation. We must learn to harness, and use this gift wisely and beneficially.
Subject: Re: Centralized Activities/Services in the Governance of SaLon
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:12:18 03/15/08 ()
Email Address: corneliushamelberg@bredband.net
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Hi Sengbe!
As Mr. Berewa used to arrive from London and report to the press, " Fruitful discussions".
I see that you are busy being constructive/construct-ing again. Beware of the rogues in sheep's clothing.
Here's my e-mail:
corneliushamelberg@bredband.net
Please get in touch; it's about the SLPP leadership....
Subject: Re: Centralized Activities/Services in the Governance of SaLon
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 14:22:44 03/15/08 ()
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Hello, Bra Cornie!
Great music, and art.
I will contact you soon.
About the SLPP leadership?????? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Subject: Re: Centralized Activities/Services in the Governance of SaLon
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 15:49:37 03/15/08 ()
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Some more Calypso
so long
Subject: Sierra Leone: Are We Sitting On a Time Bomb?
From: Concord Times
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Date Posted: 11:24:34 03/15/08 ()
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Sierra Leone: Are We Sitting On a Time Bomb?
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Concord Times (Freetown)
OPINION
14 March 2008
Posted to the web 14 March 2008
Mariama Kandeh
Freetown
The spate of violence in Sierra Leone has raised the question of whether the country is really safe for any development activity.
Among the many reasons that led to the eleven years civil conflict is unemployment and youths involvement in violence, especially university students from Fourah Bay College who ended up forming a revolution (the bush path to destruction) that resulted into a decade of carnage and other forms of inhuman treatment against ordinary Sierra Leoneans. While President Ernest Bai Koroma keep sealed lip on the issue, playing oblivion to the fact that all is not well, it is clear that the rise of hooliganism amongst youth will be detrimental to both Koroma and his APC party.
Sierra Leoneans are aware that it was during the realm of the APC one party state under the leadership of Joseph Saidu Momoh that the country went into conflict, thus we don't want a repeat of such.
The path towards Koroma's leadership was marred by violence by youths and uptil now this has been on going. All the four corners of Sierra Leone has tasted and is still tasting the wrath of violence being championed by unemployed and disgruntled youths since Koroma's election into office.
This has been exhibited in Freetown where young people believed to be supporters of the Koroma government last week attacked the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party head quarter at Wallace Johnson Street during the Sylvia Blyden-Police rowe.
In the southern city of Bo , youths went on the rampage with regards a feud that ensued on the colour of the president's picture on clock tower, in Kono violence between youths and security men at Koidu Holdings mining company turned fatal killing Aiah Momoh.
The reason for this is clear, situation is getting worse everyday in the country, happiness is gradually fading away, the poverty is becoming deepening and the unemployment rate is increasing with the frivolous sacking by the new government which is also laying a corner stone for the drowning of the country's economy. If president Koroma really wants to break the regional divide, I don't think it was wise for him to have sacked people whom the public believe he sent away because of their regional and political loyalty.
Arm robbery is becoming widespread with no capable force to put a check on it. Recently a Fullah businessman whom the governor of bank of Sierra Leone Samura Kamara described as the highest lender apart from the banks was brutally murdered by unknown gunmen. Some irrational people may say it is early to start condemning the act of the new government but should we sit and wait until the situation becomes uncontrollable before we start raising the alarm?
Should we wait after five years when Sierra Leone would have been sent decades backward?
The government has made a good stride towards the supply of power even though we are yet to know the deal behind it, as the Anti Corruption Commission which seem to be active this time has invited the Minister of Energy and Power Hafsatu Kabbah for questioning.
The first and most important aspect of any country's development is its security but seemingly President Koroma has not proved fit to handle the security situation of the five million people in the country.
Sierra Leone could not sit and wait until another five or ten years like they did for the SLPP. The president should aware that since he assumed office only a quantum of Sierra Leonean have tasted happiness. While all development activities are centralized to Freetown , little do the majority in the province are benefiting from the president's new phenomenom of develop; the power supply. What the APC government should know is that the days when politicians go free with bogus promises are over. The level of awareness has heightened to a point that even the Yapo in his farm in Koinadugu or the Baindu in Kailahun know when they are getting share of the nation's cake. The standard of living is getting higher while only few people are enjoying from the plight of the majority.
While taxes are being imposed on almost everything in the country, salaries have not increased; neither are they being paid on time. Food prices keep skyrocketing, the love that holds many families together has run away like a thief because of hardship and starvation. It also seems a knife is being put into the string that held Sierra Leoneans together before. How could an ordinary youth leader of a political party order the arrest of a mayor as was reported in Bo? Are we returning to the age of dictatorship or a one party state?
There is abject poverty in Sierra Leone while government keep designing various forms of Poverty reduction Strategy. As it was said by the jungle leaders 'na di same soup'; APC-SLPP, no difference.
The SLPP has their own strategy which made Sierra Leoneans 'teh teh' (drag) and people have the high expectation that the APC's own poverty strategy will make Sierra Leoneans walk as they are tired of dragging.
Meanwhile, signs are glaring that the 'teh teh' will not end soon since all the government cares about is building international relationship while the people in the country are not happy. My little knowledge of good governance has taught me that the success of any government depends on how firm the government's security sector is. Transparency and accountability must be the watch word for the government if they want to prove capable of managing God's most complex creation. But yet there are so many secrets contracts being signed while the government claim to be transparent.
President Koroma and his team must first change their own attitude towards the lame man in the country before asking Sierra Leoneans to change their attitude. The regional and tribal divide must be closed if this government wants to succeed.
Appointments must be made on merit rather than on party and tribal allegiance. The violence is too much.
It seems as if there are unemployed youths who are always on al3rt waiting for the slightest opportunity to explore their bitterness against their fellow Sierra Leoneans.
Remember a stitch in time saves nine. We don't want to go back to war
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Are We Sitting On a Time Bomb?
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 12:29:32 03/15/08 ()
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the NEW APC I was afraid would conduct business as the OLD APC did in the past(but Ernest told us so). Thus my fear, and support for the SLPP.
I hate to state so, but we told you so, about things to come under the APC.
Their period of grace must not be extended for the sake of good governance in SaLon.
We are talking about removing the excesses, and ineptitude that sent us to war under them for 11 years.
Indeed!! "...We don't want to go back to war..."
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Are We Sitting On a Time Bomb?
From: With
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Date Posted: 11:26:27 03/16/08 ()
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We are talking about removing the excesses, and ineptitude that sent us to war under them for 11 years.
That should read as follows:
We are talking about removing the excesses, and ineptitude that sent us to war WITH them for 11 years.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Are We Sitting On a Time Bomb?
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 15:37:53 03/15/08 ()
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I don't really understand all this mulch talk. What has the new APC done for Sierra Leone to be sitting on a timebomb ? What evil and bad governance and oppression didn't we see from the SLPP reign ? You guys have to grow up and get over this BAD LOSER SYNDROME.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Are We Sitting On a Time Bomb?
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 17:09:43 03/15/08 ()
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"...What has the new APC done for Sierra Leone to be sitting on a timebomb?..." Rev. Kanu quoted.
Please ask the writer of the Concord Times article that question.
I believe the writer is cautioning us about recent events experienced by many folks in the country under the New APC, and the consequences they may portend for the future, as compared to our recent past history.
"...What evil and bad governance and oppression didn't we see from the SLPP reign?..."
May be you can delineate them for us on this forum.
As I indicated in an earlier post, no amount of cynical lamentation in reference to the loss of the elections by the SLPP is gonna prevent us from serving our function in the opposition in order to uplift development, and downgrade mismanagement in that nation of ours.
We know and accept our loss six months ago. But should that prevent us from being a viable opposition? I don't think so.
Continue referring to us as "bad losers", while we keep our ears and eyes on the new governors. We are not fazed by that descr1ption. I bet you'd still be calling us that name after four years into the future of APC rule. That will not faze us at all.
Subject: Re: Sierra Leone: Are We Sitting On a Time Bomb?
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 15:21:15 03/15/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
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There ought to be another side to the story. The APC regained leadership of the country through a clean sweep election victory. If certain elements of the opposition still believe that they don't deserve to lose, then they've got to take the case to court and wait for the law to take its course. But if the bitterness and shock of defeat should transform them into recalcitrant squealing piglets, then someone simply has to shop them up! This must explain the level at which the violence is breeding ..... the grass root level. [Provocation met with peer reaction!] Had the government been seriously involved, the participation of any of the national security forces would have been evident. Nobody would expect the victorious APC youth to remain complacent while the disgruntled SLPP youths continue to dastardly demonstrate the determination to take the law into their own hands!
OK! Opposition loyalists can't stand the incessant hammering from statements like: "The curse of corruption kicked the SLPP out of office!", "The most recent incumbent party to be booted out of office by the opposition with all the state funds at its disposal .....", "The haggard looking chain-smoker deserved to lose the elections .... people thought wisely not to entrust the leadership to a man with an accelerating pace to the grave anyway!" etc. But then that's part of the political game. Win or lose! But there's no way the party can compromise the security of the state because of the spill-over effect of an election lose!
Time bomb! It an opinionated statement - hyped and biased! The real intention is to smear, scare and tear apart the people's resolution for change!
Subject: New Catholic Archbishop of Freetown and Bo
From: Eliz
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Date Posted: 10:24:58 03/15/08 ()
Email Address: thenewsletter@hotmail.com
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Rev. Fr. Edward Tamba Charles is the new Catholic Archbishop of the Diocese of Freetown and Bo. He replaces Archbishop Ganda.
Congratulations Archbishop Elect.
Subject: Defending the State
From: foday mansaray
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Date Posted: 10:16:31 03/15/08 ()
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This is a shame for some of you to actually seat here and wine about creep and blood. You don’t know what these gentlemen had to endure for you to see Democracy today is Sierra Leone.
We must give respect were respect is due. Leather boot and the rest of these fine troopers are now the best secret service any president will ever have. Why, because they are there for the love of Sierra Leone and to protect the Interest of all of us and to see the leader get to complete his term of office without any interference from any hoodless like what the SLPP have been insinuating..(Trouble).
Like many from his era, they have transformed themselves and bring a whole new meaning to defending the security of the State.
I personally worked along side each of these gentlemen you see in this picture. The only way you can tell someone commitment to a cause is when they are ready to give there life. .These men love Sierra Leone. It was because of their courage that the Leader was not arrested in the final hours leading to the elections and the day of the chairlady reading of the results. The APC leader was left to perish in Bo and Kailahum by our own police force. These men stepped up the plate to defend the Leader and to protect Democracy as we see it today.
My hearth goes to all our men in uniform who have one way or the other defended freedom to secure a better and brighter tomorrow for generations to come
Long live Sierra Leone, Long Live the “ALL PEOPLES CONGRESS.”and more importantly, if it is true that the ‘Sun’ is forever, that means APC will live infinitely.
God bless Sierra Leone
Subject: Re: Defending the State
From: J.S.Bull
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Date Posted: 12:35:55 03/15/08 ()
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Bull-kaka!!! Tell that to the surviving family members of their brutal barbarity, and see where you end up, bra collaborator.
Subject: What is the Role of Sierra Leonean's that are SuperRich?
From: Stokes
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Date Posted: 09:24:23 03/15/08 ()
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We all know that Sierra Leone is rich with resources, however the access to those resources and who benefits from it’s potential revenue is another story.
The interesting thing is Sierra Leone has an affluent African class. This group can be classified into mainly two types: hustlers, who will do anything for a buck, and dignitaries, whose source of wealth is questionable. This groups with money and their attitudes towards wealth is mainly slanted towards luxuries. Much of the income is spent on High end luxury items, art collections, jewelry Cars and Mansions.
In the coming years, I envision this group thinking of yachts, beachfront estates instead of McMansions, and Bentleys and Maybachs instead of Mercedes and BMWs.
A BIG question raised, is where are those Superrich getting their money?
Why don't they let their money circulate in the Country in terms of pioneering investments?
Subject: Re: What is the Role of Sierra Leonean's that are SuperRich?
From: Fenthi
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Date Posted: 13:07:28 03/15/08 ()
Email Address: Fenthi@hotmail.com
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And do they pay INCOME TAX ??
Subject: Re: What is the Role of Sierra Leonean's that are SuperRich?
From: Call on Monty Jones
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Date Posted: 11:56:30 03/15/08 ()
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Monty Jones
By Jeffrey Sachs
When Africa breaks free from the grip of poverty and famine—as it now looks poised to do—Monty Jones, 56, will have played a pivotal role. A native of Sierra Leone, Jones is the revered plant breeder who developed NERICA, the New Rices for Africa, a set of high-productivity rices adapted to West Africa's growing conditions. Jones' efforts in creating NERICA are legendary. He and his team painstakingly crossed varieties of Asian and African rices to find stable and fertile breeds that would combine the yields of Asia's plants and the toughness of Africa's. NERICA is now being taken up by farmers across West Africa, boosting food security and incomes. Jones' work has also helped inspire other groups to support an African Green Revolution. The payoff will be a healthy, well-nourished continent on a path to economic development.
Sachs is director of Columbia University's Earth Institute
Subject: Re: What is the Role of Sierra Leonean's that are SuperRich?
From: Borbor
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Date Posted: 11:33:25 03/15/08 ()
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The rich have been getting richer for ages. But increasingly, The Rich should be driving our economy, our culture and our spending habits. But I'm not sure if that is the case in Sa Leone.
Subject: Re: What is the Role of Sierra Leonean's that are SuperRich?
From: Super Rich
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Date Posted: 10:14:30 03/15/08 ()
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Stokes, what ya talking 'bout? Are you a communist? Shioor! This is capitalism Mister Man. I worked hard fot my money with my honest blood and sweat. The contracts I received from SLPP are due to careful networking and luck. Thanks to good old-fashioned capitalism, I am rich. God Bless President Kabba and SLPP!
Subject: Re: What is the Role of Sierra Leonean's that are SuperRich?
From: Stokes
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Date Posted: 12:30:11 03/15/08 ()
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You are classified in the : hustlers group. Of course I find your tale of an affluent African a little disheartening, but it brings to light the issue of options for your wealth.
You still have to learn how to be a good steward of Wealth.
Sierra Leone is still Poor.
Subject: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: His Royal Highness
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Date Posted: 02:38:34 03/15/08 ()
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I like Ernest Koroma but I think these body guards of his appears like they belongs to the Creeps and the bloods.
A little
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: Gangsta
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Date Posted: 07:39:00 03/15/08 ()
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You mean Crips and Bloods, homes. Now that's gangsta!
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: Campton in the houseeeeeeee...
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Date Posted: 10:43:59 03/15/08 ()
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The man said CREEPS and blood.. what about that needs interpretation.
Almost all would be in jail or be co-defendants of Charles taylor in the terrorising of a poor african nation if we should call a spade a shobul.
And why does leatherboots relax his hair or am i not seeing the picture properly?
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: foday mansaray
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Date Posted: 11:22:37 03/15/08 ()
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Call Al Shapton and ask him why he relaxes his Hair.May be you can get your answer.
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: Drinking my ginNjiuce
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Date Posted: 12:58:59 03/15/08 ()
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Heheheheheheh...
Comparing al shapiro to leatherboots?
A strongman who uses strectching comb...
HEHEHEHE woyang me mammy tiday...
If we had equivilent to papers like Enquirer or Sun in London...
They will be asking..
"Is Leather Boots Gay"? then, disclaim.."Not that there is anything wrong with it".
And why is he called leather boots?
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 13:04:21 03/15/08 ()
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"...And why is he called leather boots?..."
Because he stinks, and fought as a maggot alongside the sobels, afrc, and ruf against our peoples.
Hey Leatherboots, how many babies did you kill? And how many pregnant women did you disembowel during the war.
Maggot of a faggot, he is.
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: They are creeps
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Date Posted: 07:45:42 03/15/08 ()
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No he means the creeps of the afrc and ruf, and the blood they stand for in the new apc.
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: foday mansaray
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Date Posted: 10:15:01 03/15/08 ()
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This is a shame for some of you to actually seat here and wine about creep and blood. You don’t know what these gentlemen had to endure for you to see Democracy today is Sierra Leone.
We must give respect were respect is due. Leather boot and the rest of these fine troopers are now the best secret service any president will ever have. Why, because they are there for the love of Sierra Leone and to protect the Interest of all of us and to see the leader get to complete his term of office without any interference from any hoodless like what the SLPP have been insinuating..(Trouble).
Like many from his era, they have transformed themselves and bring a whole new meaning to defending the security of the State.
I personally worked along side each of these gentlemen you see in this picture. The only way you can tell someone commitment to a cause is when they are ready to give there life. .These men love Sierra Leone. It was because of their courage that the Leader was not arrested in the final hours leading to the elections and the day of the chairlady reading of the results. The APC leader was left to perish in Bo and Kailahum by our own police force. These men stepped up the plate to defend the Leader and to protect Democracy as we see it today.
My hearth goes to all our men in uniform who have one way or the other defended freedom to secure a better and brighter tomorrow for generations to come
Long live Sierra Leone, Long Live the “ALL PEOPLES CONGRESS.”and more importantly, if it is true that the ‘Sun’ is forever, that means APC will live infinitely.
God bless Sierra Leone
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: Nikon Pu
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Date Posted: 11:59:01 03/15/08 ()
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Foday u nar craseman for true. Whodat go believe u?
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 10:53:16 03/15/08 ()
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Mr Mansaray.. i dont know where you got your morning coffee..but it might be spiked..
WHAT????
You still believe Ernest Koroma was on an assasination shortlist..??
Saddam had breakfast with Osama everyday, yep... he did....??
The streets of London is paved with gold you say? And if you walk to the edge of the earth you might just fall off..
Ernest Koroma was never in danger, leatherboots should be arrested for causing grave bodily harm on Tom Nyuma..
If we bend the rules as much..why do we expect others to respect them..??
Pallleeeeaassssseeeee
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: Foday Mansaray
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Date Posted: 11:46:13 03/15/08 ()
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Sorry, I get my coffee from where America runs on. That is what keeps me going. Don’t try to down play the assignation attempt. This was a real my threat.
Joe Bleeee knows knows they cannot stage a coup that is why they are out there trying to incite riot and anarchy for the government.
Look at THE NEW PEOPLE’S strategy throughout the month of March.
They have resulted to become the worse media outlet in Sierra Leone.They need to vindicate themself as a credible media out before it is too late.
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: Foday Man saray
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Date Posted: 11:19:45 03/15/08 ()
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Someone like you should hail leatherboot. You know his ability as a soldier and a Master Military strategist.
I am not faulting you to defend SLPP .These are your people. I am talking about someone who defended Democracy.Tom Nyuma is right now apologising for crossing the line to listen to people like Joe Bleeeeeeee,John Benjamin and co
Now, you know where I am coming from.This is not a game.It is life and death for the poor and suffering in sierra leone. What did big Joe did to bring relief to his people? You can answer that question.
Lets live politics alone and concentrate in the rebuilding process of our nation.
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: keke blahima
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Date Posted: 14:38:22 03/15/08 ()
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Question for Foday Mansaray:
"Tom Nyuma is right now apologising for crossing the line to listen to people like Joe Bleeeeeeee,John Benjamin and co"
-Apologizing to to who????-
Subject: Re: Creeps And Bloods Of Body Guards
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 13:06:46 03/15/08 ()
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You funny bra..
Just well.. not "funny" funny..but funny...
Leatherboots a brilliant Military strategist...
Only in the APC..
And its funny too that just you know my last name you associate me prejudicially....
A grown man like me in any world would be expected to make my own decisions, carve out my own destiny and do not hald affiliation because of tribal, regional or religious ties.. so your Bleeeeeeeeee Bleeeeeee message is not getting thru..
I hold my opinions not because old family ties..
Stop threatening me and address me as my handle..
This has nothing to do with them..and they are not my peoples.
Defended democracy...? Who.. streching comb passe...??
Bo lef nor.. ?
I would think the okra hill boys would all be in jail by now..
Subject: Sierra Leone Floating Wealth
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 16:48:10 03/14/08 ()
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All around the world, from Rio De Jeniero in Brazil to Rainham in England and Canada, the steel industry is economically viable. The steel product provides huge income for countries that embark on the extraction of the ore. In all these countries the ore can only be extracted by heavy blasting of the earth's crust, obtain millions of tones of earth which only contain about 50 to 60% of real steel.
I remember when I was in secondary school, in form 3 to be precise, our physics teacher tasked us to perform an experiment on 'magnetic field'. The lab lacked iron fillings which is used to conduct the experiment, so he decided to give us a 200g of magnetic bars each and that we go outside the school compound and place these bars underneath the gravel to extract the black dust attracted to the magnet. We were instructed to get at least a kilo of this dust each, we were about 48 students in class many student were able to obtain more. So when we returned to class, the teacher asked who knows what the dust was, nobody could guess the right answer. The teacher sighed and said this is 100% IRON ORE. He even remarked this is how reach this country is. Sierra Leone is blessed with huge mineral resources its quiet evident that iron ore can be extracted without even having to blast the earth, try to observe when rain falls and subsides, you can see this black dust floating on the surface.
Currently, there are countries that have already started the method of extracting iron ore by magnetic means. Sierra Leone can do this and the dividen can be huge as steel industry can provide not only huge revenue for the government but can also create huge employment for Sierra Leoneans.
So I think the government should embark on this method it will provide a platform for higher extraction of the ore.
Subject: Milton Margai Rapist Students Expelled
From: Lanre
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Date Posted: 16:33:24 03/14/08 ()
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Seventeen students of the Milton Margai College of Education, Science and Technology, Goderich Campus have been expelled from the college after being found guilty of raping a female colleague. This was disclosed in a statement issued by college authorities on Wednesday 13th March 2008. The incident according to the statement happened some three months ago.
The Public Relation Officer of the college, Brima Kanu said in the statement that a female student (name withheld) at that time reported to college authorities that she was taken to the Ocean View beach by some male students where she was systematically gang raped.
COMMENT: What have become of our youth? Are these students or rebels?
This makes me angry: The college expulsions is not enough, this should also be a police matter, and they should be prosecuted. The names of these animals should be published in a national sex and rapist register and their names sent to the various embassies so that they will forget about any possibility of an overseas visa. It will also help the country if such rapists are castrated for the security of our sisters and daughters.
Subject: Re: No To Jungle Rights Over Females
From: John E. Leigh
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Date Posted: 16:09:19 03/15/08 ()
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Dear Mr. Lanre:
I share your revulsion at the brutal abuse of females by some of our young men. And I join all those who demand that the Milton Margai College rapists must be prosecuted for this horrific crime.
Their expulsion from college will be considered as merely a pat on the wrists of those violent animals. Those types of men are usually the type of SLeoneans dismissive of female civil rights in their daily lives.
The Milton Margai case must be used also to educate our men and boys about the correct and proper way to treat people of the opposite in their daily lives. The suffering of our females day-in, day-out is highly pathetic and offensive. The macho attitude of many SL males towards females need correction - and urgently at that!
Unless SL men are persuaded to give up their jungle rights over SL females, we can't have a real civilized society in our homeland.
In this regard, what the NEW APC Government must understand is that a country's qualification for the type and amount of international aid necessary to make a real difference in developning SL is partly dependent on how the civil rights of SL females are protected by our authorities. Making an example of the Milton Margai College gang rapists is thus a must if our national authorities are serious to move our country forward.
Merely expelling rapists from school/college would indeed stigmatize President Koroma's government in the eyes of powerful development authorities worldwide.
In the meantime, I deeply appreciate the anger you've displayed in bringing this matter to our attention. Thank you very much. - JL
Subject: Re: Milton Margai Rapist Students Expelled
From: Saloneboy
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Date Posted: 17:04:37 03/14/08 ()
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The victim must sue them in a court of law. If anyone knows the victim, I will be willing to donate the sum of fifty dollars towards her legal cost.
This needs to be nipped in the bud. There are many ladies who have also faced such a terrible act, but because of shame, they did not report the crime.
I think this disgraceful act must be confronted and it does spread in Secondary schools across the Country.
Hope there will be a strong response against this wretched act.
Subject: Re: Milton Margai Rapist Students Expelled
From: Bra Enviable
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Date Posted: 17:03:03 03/14/08 ()
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Is the College saying that the alleged rapists were merely expelled without the possibility of jail-time?
I thought rape was a felonious act, punishable by a very long prison sentence? Are the suspects not going to be arrested and put on trial? The press in Sierra Leone should be crawling over this story with all the outrage it deserves.
Subject: Re: Milton Margai Rapist Students Expelled
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 17:24:40 03/14/08 ()
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I believe the says their were expelled after being found guilty of rape. I'm sure they're still in custody the college only made it clear that htey are no long part of the curriculum.
Subject: Sierra Leone army to 'downsize': minister
From: Madingo Man
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Date Posted: 15:13:26 03/14/08 ()
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Sierra Leone army to 'downsize': minister
2 hours ago
FREETOWN (AFP) — Sierra Leone's military chiefs are working on means to downsize from its current 10,000 soldiers to 8,500, Defence Minister Palo Conteh said Friday, according to a state radio report.
"We cannot allow a large army ...We have to downsize to a lean army that can react quickly to a given situation," he said.
Sierra Leone is a deeply poor country, despite being rich in diamonds, gold and other minerals.
An arms for diamonds trade was one factor that prolonged a brutal civil war between 1991 and 2002, which left devastation in its wake with tens of thousands having their limbs amputated.
"We will start with those wounded in action as some of them are blind or have lost limbs," the minister added. "The second batch will be the mentally ill and finally the chronically ill."
Once this group of about 520 soldiers had left, the military planned to shed troops "who have reached the retirement age of 55 and lastly those who would volunteer to retire," Conteh said.
Conteh pointed out, however, that the military has "made a commitment to the United Nations to provide a battalion of 850 men whenever we are needed for peace-keeping operations worldwide."
"We have also an ECOWAS Standby Force already in training and waiting for the green light to be sent to any trouble spot in Africa under the African Union," he added.
ECOWAS is the Nigeria-based Economic Community of West African States, a 15-nation grouping that aims for financial and economic cooperation and also has a military arm.
Nigerian troops were deployed in Sierra Leone at one stage during the civil war, before UN peacekeepers.
Subject: Delft to Sierra Leone: the engineering connection
From: Madingo man
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Date Posted: 15:08:24 03/14/08 ()
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Subject: Sylvia Blyden in trouble with the law
From: Madingo Man
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Date Posted: 14:59:46 03/14/08 ()
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The publisher of Awareness Times, Dr. Sylva Blyden is said to be in another trouble, this time with the court of law. According to For Di People, Magistrate Adrian Fisher has issued a criminal subpoena on Dr. Blyden for publishing a libelous article which the Magistrate said has tarnished his credibility. The report says Dr. Blyden had dodged several attempts by the court to get her to answer to queries. As a last resort according to the report, Magistrate Fisher is reportedly thinking of issuing a bench warrant for her arrest. Dr. Blyden’s case according the Magistrate has nothing to do with the government.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden in trouble with the law
From: The Nationalist
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Date Posted: 15:11:13 03/14/08 ()
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Sylvia is bound for jail if this is so because Magistrate Adrien Fisher is a no-nonsense man.And this time, nobody will say it is politics.
Subject: Re: Sylvia Blyden in trouble with the law
From: Talkhalf lef Half
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Date Posted: 04:24:33 03/15/08 ()
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I personally dont know Sylvia Blyden but those who want to see her go to jail or being flogged are just obsessed with her.
I think Sierra Leone has more problems than concentrating on the activities of this woman.I admired president koromas handling of the issue which shows he does not want to be distracted by trivialities.
Those who dont want to be criticized should not hold public office as by accepting such an office leaves you open to scrutiny and possible criticism.
As for Adrian Fisher some of us know better and are even suprised how he became a magistrate in SL knowing fully well his record he left in the UK.In SL anything is possible.
Subject: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 11:26:34 03/14/08 ()
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"...We are sitting on a gold bed almost in the whole country but we have not engaged in commercial gold operations," Koroma told Reuters in an interview in his office in State House in the capital Freetown..."
If this is the case then why are we so poor?
Why cannot we feed and fend for ourselves?
Why do we continue to languish at the bottom of most developmental indexes?
All because we do not believe in our abilities to properly harness and manage the natural resources we are endowed with. We leave it to others to capitalize on this gift.
Why would we be (laying)/sitting on a "bed of gold" uniformly in that country and "not engage in commercial gold operations"?
Can the APC Task Force please answer that question, and others posed above instead of constantly acting like the "Tonton Macoutes" of yester-years in Haiti, instilling fear in the minds and hearts of folks in a general population undergoing post-traumatic stress during the infancy of your rule?
We all know that a weak government is usually afraid of critics, and has a very low threshold for dissent. Prove us wrong in the future, please.
Have the "commercial operations" been thoroughly worked out yet? Are they gonna be indigeneous, or foreigner-dominated? I mean, are our folks gonna be empowered to lead the way in the commercialization of this prospect? If so, how so?
For starters, we could conceive of a national corporation / company that involves civilians and the RSLAF - afterall, they ain't doing nothing over there, even when Yenga and other villages are under the clutches of the Guinean army.
We could train a few batallions to mine the nation's gold and other endowments. These army folks are supposed to be disciplined and very well-ordered. If we can contract these "idle" soldiers to generate the funding finance needed for development through the mining of these natural resources, it is conceivable that we could manage the output more appropriately and efficiently for the benefit of the nation so that we can stop begging at No. 10, and other 'charitable venues' for our development, and simultaneously minimize or negate the smuggling of these mineral resources as is now the case.
The logistics of how to do this could be discussed on this forum or elsewhere. We should all contribute to the solution sought by this proposal:
1. Close all the important major areas sighted to house our natural endowments to the general public, and unscrupulous gouging foreigners, in particular.
2. Allow these trained soldiers (a workforce entitled the "Mining Brigade of Sa Lon", or the "Army Mining Corps of Engineers", perhaps) to mine in these areas with the technical support needed for a period of time. Their permanency will depend on their success in generating the funding finance needed to support sustainable national development.
3. The Corps could be managed by reputable individuals of SaLonian descent (civilians) in the mining, earth science / geology, business, economic, and/or management fields, but the ultimate goal would be for the Corps to be self-sustaining as a (mining) corporation.
Profits ensuing from these activities could be used to help make the transition from an agrarian economy to an industrialized one; buttress the army in terms of better-living conditions, pay rate and scale; procure state-of-the-art pieces of equipment for sustaining an impervious territorial integrity, and other benefits that would inevitably debar retrenchment.
[Why would you retrench 2,500 soldiers when an occupying force is in / on your territory?]
If we are truly "laying on a bed of gold" throughout the whole country, as HE EBK has stated, then all we would have to do is to figure out how best to selflessly harness the gold in this bed for the benefit of everyone in the nation.
The intent of what I have stated above is to break the ice on this topic. Obviously, there are advantages and disadvantages inherent in this proposal, but what they are is where your input is needed.
Self-sufficiency / genuine independence, and the road leading to industrialization and economic empowerment/prosperity, are two advantages foreseen in this proposal.
[Please remember that these facets are interlinked in implementing the principles of democracy: the rule of law; good governance; and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms].
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 13:04:35 03/14/08 ()
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Minus the rhetorical questions, the suggestions are pretty much worth considering. My only reservation is with the tempting nature of mining. These would-be folks from the "Mining Brigade" are supposedly trained/prepared to sacrifice their lives in defense of the land. The attitudinal diversion might undermine the sacrificial professionalism that the military dictates. The 'hard-core' professional focus could be openly compromised.
[Why would you retrench 2,500 soldiers when an occupying force is in / on your territory?] Comment: War is so easy to start, but then the cost of one in terms of life and property is difficult to anticipate. After all, when we attempt to put in proper perspective the family relations and nationalistic, the difference between a soldier and a civilian is just the uniform. Perhaps, this is the reason why the option of war is preferably considered only when all other options have been exhausted. Acknowledging this notion makes one to look more responsible and subsequently, more politically matured!
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 13:49:22 03/14/08 ()
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"...The attitudinal diversion might undermine the sacrificial professionalism that the military dictates. The 'hard-core' professional focus could be openly compromised..." Mensa quoted.
Please tell that to the Revolutionary Guards in Iran, and the US Army Corps of Engineers, and many more formidable armies around the globe.
The Revoluionary Guards are contracted to build most, if not all the major infrastructure in Iran; from hydroelectric dams to maslasis. Who do you think is rebuilding New Orleans in a very grand way? The US Army Corps of Engineers, that's who.
The organizational chart that encompasses the function of a serving / standing group of volunteering uniformed men and women in defence of their nation in the form of a national security force or forces should, in my opinion, be comprehensively trained, and magnanimously versatile enough to protect and defend the nationals. Protection and defence must not be considered to necessarily appear during a time of aggression / war. In this engagement the army could be used to fight against poverty by helping to generate wealth for everyone in the nation.
Who is advocationg for war? The aggressor, or the transgressed ones? Who came into Yenga from Guinea? For sure, not I. I don't study war no more.
Indeed, it is quite difficult to anticipate the cost of war in terms of "life and property". That is why I am NOT advocating for a war to be waged between us and the Guineans.
But when you send you sojas na me land and they stay, and don't look like leaving any time soon, I must also put my own sojas within the boundaries of me land near where it is occupied and start farming for the benefit of me and my peeps. And if they continue to harrass my peeps, as claimed previously, my peeps must have the confidence of muscle in their vicinity. They must feel like they are NOT alone in this intimidation which may be due to genuine fears conceived by the aggressor, or due to some "national debt" incurred during our brutal palaver. Who knows? Our presence must be felt in that region as a force for defence and protection.
If diplomacy is the "notion that makes one to look more responsible and subsequently, more politically matured", then I have been all for it. But for how long? without you making the aggressor blink? That is where I am coming from.
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 01:05:55 03/15/08 ()
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Sengbe wrote: "But for how long? without you making the aggressor blink? That is where I am coming from."
Comment: That statement should have sounded more reasonable during the SLPP era. But coming from an SLPP die-hard with 'polluted' intentions, one could easily see the trap. The New APC should raise the tension, so that a slight misunderstanding could see the declaration of war! If folks like you have been patient during the SLPP era, what's your stress with time when the new government is just a couple of months old?
The New Government has more pressing issues to tackle than dive headlong into this Yenga debacle! True, down the line, it will be given its due priority, but definitely not now. You people are advocating for an APC demise so your suggestions must be thoroughly scrutinized and critically considered before being taken with a pinch of salt!
Again Sengbe wrote: "The Revoluionary Guards are contracted to build most, if not all the major infrastructure in Iran; from hydroelectric dams to maslasis. Who do you think is rebuilding New Orleans in a very grand way? The US Army Corps of Engineers, that's who."
I really admire you folks! It's one thing to easily conjure these ideas, but then a completley different thing to implement them in practical! One thing you might have to ask yourself is: How professional is our Army! Is the atmosphere 'economically provisonal' enough to maintain the professionalism required? Perhap, this debate might have to continue! Got some work to do in the office!
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 07:43:00 03/15/08 ()
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I do not understand why "that statement should have sounded more reasonable during the SLPP era" than during the APC era. Isn't the APC leading the present GoSL? Haven't the Guineans captured more territory under the APC than the SLPP? During the SLPP era it was only Yenga, but four more villages have been added to their list since the APC took over, as I understand the situation.
If the new government has more pressing needs to contend with, why was EBK prominently in that area during the period leading up to the election campaign? Was he merely acting tough by pretending to be tough? The semblance of toughness and the reality of it are mutually exclusive.
No one is asking the New APC to raise the "tension". We are merely reminding your party folks in our new government about one of their primary functions in governance - national defence and protection. Remember, it was only in Yenga that the occupation took place under the SLPP. Under the new APC, the number of villages now occupied is five (and counting). When and where will it stop? Asking your party to show signs that it has the interest of the folks in that area is NOT tantamount to asking her to go to war from a weakened position. We are saying that our presence should be felt near the area of occupation so that our people are confident of having some back-up muscle should the Guineans continue to harrass them. This desire does not constitute the declaration of war on the aggressors, merely to remind them about our interest in our territorial integrity while the matter is placed on the agenda of some international body - be it African or global.
You state and I quote:
"...It's one thing to easily conjure these ideas, but then a completley different thing to implement them in practical!..."
My retort to that statement of yours is as follows:
Soldiers are no longer just fighters but nation-builders.
"How professional is our Army," you ask?
I don't know the answer to that question, but based on the investment made to rebuild the military so far in Sa Lon, by the GoSL, IMATT, DFID, the USA, and others, I would think that it is quite formidable. To remove the doubt, why not test the professionalism of this new army in nation-building?
We are not going to buy the cynical lamentation in your post about our yearning for the demise of the new apc in her infancy in governance presently. We are going to hold them to the task they were elected to perform, and we are going to do so till the peoples decide again in 2012. Cry those blues all you want, we will not relent in our opposition.
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:37:10 03/15/08 ()
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Sengbeh i dont know where some people here get this complex..
This, you are either for us or you are against us Bushiology...
Recently, you can't say a thing without it been called subversion..
You cant get 5 SLPP men together over a beer and some roast beef without it been called planing a coup...
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?????
Is freedom of assembly only reserved for RED WEARING 2 horned politicians and task force members..?
I am begining to feel like this is a concerted effort to cower the opposition.. and turn salone into a virtual 1 party state where its not on paper that we have a 1 party state but we might as well just be a 1 party state..
Its looking as if we are about to witness the Mugaberization of salones teething democracy..
That would be so bad...even for the APC..
Without this voice of decent and check on APC.. be it by the SLPP, PMDC, the JJ Bloods, the Awareness Times and New people of this world, and Neutrals like us..
Salone is headed once again for Shekism.. and Ben Kanuism and MK SUMAism...Big men from metro tonkolili who our nation bowed to and paid for with blood, toil, sweat and tears..
About the RSLMF been engaged in a national development drive..
I dont think thats new.. the salone army does have a corp of engineers since the 70's if i remember right..
It all boils down to funding and thinking outside the box..
In a country where an idea is not fomulated unless it comes from some post puberty caucasian writing his thesis on development in Africa and sent to work for the DFID or peace corp, its hard..
Our situation is funny.. just like you and me.. and a host of others.. our post puberty bust of creativity is spent doing the groundwork for babylon's next generation..
In that same breath.. I WILL CLEARLY STATE, it was all the fault of our geriatric generation..and not trying to make it sound partisan, but aye...it just happen that it was APC that lef handled on our nation and or should i say I, will always blame my fathers generation for allowing the APC of old to take us on that path to national recession...
I know with my whole being that it is MY DUTY to not prescribe the same fate for my childrens generation..
If that is subversion.. call me rebel.. and pin me to the cross..
The John Adams and George Washingtons of this world made it thier duty to challenge authority and look what the end result is..
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 12:08:01 03/15/08 ()
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Candid O, what you have so eloquently stated is what I was afraid of with the akartas in power, hence my support for the SLPP (with all her faults) in a civilized democracy.
Where have you ever seen it to be true that a leopard is spotless? Leopards never lose their spots even if they try to camoflague themselves under the red sun.
I wonder where the pmdc boys are at nowadays? Bloody fools!!!
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: KLA
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Date Posted: 12:37:06 03/14/08 ()
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Chief Sengbe how di go!
Some of us have wondered for as to when Sierra leone would actually consider her mineral wealth ,a SOLID BASE for national wealth creation.
"...We are sitting on a gold bed almost in the whole country but we have not engaged in commercial gold operations," Koroma told Reuters in an interview in his office in State House in the capital Freetown..."...Sengbe
It is good to hear the President place emphasis on the importance and extent of the Gold DEPOSITS of Salone. One could understand his hype, given the current boom in the Gold business. We may be looking at a conservative estimate of up to a million ounces of gold from deposits at BAOMAHUN alone!
Sierra Leone is blessed with World class MINING TALENT that could be put to work for the National good. We must however,get serious about running corruption free operations.....Shut down all smuggling rackets!!! Some of us are fans of the ASIAN TIGER NATIONS, and the way handle economic CRIMINALS.
One must also consider the contractual obligations of THE GOSL to International INVESTORS currently active on the Ground! There has to be a balance, the interests of Salone versus THE interests OF INTERNATIONAL RISK CAPITAL.
Thanks again , Chief for your interest in the mining sector of Salone.
tstm
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 09:56:39 03/15/08 ()
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"... a million ounces of gold from deposits at BAOMAHUN alone!..." KLA
A million ounces times about a thousand dollars per ounce equals a billion dollars of gross revenue from this area alone.
KLA, where is the geographic locat1on of Boamahun in SL? South? East? West? North? Province? District? Chiefdom? Section?
It does not matter really coz we are "sitting on a bed of gold". If you believe HE EBK.
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 12:58:25 03/14/08 ()
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You are quite welcome, KLA. How goes, bra?
It is quite prudent to consider the contractual obligations of the present APC-led GoSL in this sector, and I agree that a balance must be strucked, but that the interest of Sa Lon must me paramount to that of the IRC.
I wonder how long the duration is in our subjugation to the present blanket of contractual obligations, and if the duration can be expedited? In other words, I hope we do not now need to honour 100-year leases / guarantees for these areas of national economic interest - the so-called High Value Areas (HVA's)- due to hasty shady deals of the past. It is a new day now, and the present must surpass that temptation if a change is gonna be imminent oberyanda.
What is your take on the ArmyCorps of Engineers to prowl our minelands in the national interest? so that we can eradicate poverty, and forster in development that is truly national and sustainable.
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: KLA
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Date Posted: 13:36:51 03/14/08 ()
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"I wonder how long the duration is in our subjugation to the present blanket of contractual obligations, and if the duration can be expedited? In other words, I hope we do not now need to honour 100-year leases / guarantees for these areas of national economic interest - the so-called High Value Areas (HVA's)- due to hasty shady deals of the past. It is a new day now, and the present must surpass that temptation if a change is gonna be imminent oberyanda"..Sengbe
You are so correct. Time is of great essence. The current players in the Salone mining Business understand this too!! Gold at current prices, will add speed to any PACE!!
Mining reform in Salone is paced by the work and contribution of the British DFID. They HAVE PROMISED COMPLETE transparency! Indeed, much of the ground work was completed under the TK led GOSL.
"What is your take on the ArmyCorps of Engineers to prowl our minelands in the national interest? so that we can eradicate poverty, and forster in development that is truly national and sustainable" SENGBE
This should have been implemented since yesterday! Soldiers must earn their salaries in peace time. Sources of Wealth are normally protected by armed and trained staff. Such a proposition, must however receive the blessings of the respective political parties.THIS MUST BE A NATIONAL EFFORT.
tstm
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Sengbe
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Date Posted: 14:23:26 03/14/08 ()
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"... Sources of Wealth are normally protected by armed and trained staff. Such a proposition, must however receive the blessings of the respective political parties.THIS MUST BE A NATIONAL EFFORT..."
I agree completely.
APC!
SLPP!!
PMDC!!!
What do you say?
Is this proposal worth your consideration?
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: Morgan
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Date Posted: 12:54:22 03/14/08 ()
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KLA,
Since you are a supporter of the present APC government don't you think you should convey your brilliant ideas to Prezo Koroma? This may help to quickly alleviate poverty in our beloved country.
Subject: Re: Sitting on a Gold Bed
From: KLA
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:09 03/14/08 ()
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To be honest with you, i am not a political partisan.
Salone politics nah for wait en see!!
Some of us have had a strong interest in the Afrikan resource industry and have posted helpful and relevant info. on the subject.
I was informed that President Koroma IS A AVID SURFER to this site, and he is free to make use of ideas as he sees fit.
AS to a more formal role with the GOSL, No public comment on that!
tstm
Subject: Check This Out!
From: Rambler
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Date Posted: 10:18:34 03/14/08 ()
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Time out!
Subject: Check This Out
From: Rambler
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Date Posted: 10:13:49 03/14/08 ()
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These guy's made out of rubber are starting to weird me out!
Subject: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: Stokes
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Date Posted: 08:06:01 03/14/08 ()
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FREETOWN - From New People Correspondent. Despite government denials that it has still not received the gift of one shipload of rice and flour donated by the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, the evidence and pictures say otherwise. The New People can confirm that three senior government officials have been involved in the receipt and sales of the first consignment of rice and flour.
Our sources note that the trade minister was involved in the receipt and sales of the rice, and that he received and sold the rice with specific instructions to do so surreptitiously and to ensure that the media and the public are left completely uninformed about the sale.
At the time of going to press, it is unconfirmed what the total volume of sales may have been and how much the APC government ministers made from the shady deal to sell the rice. It is however thought that the money has been diverted into subsidising the huge costs of providing electricity in Freetown - a situation that has placed a massive financial burden to the current government.
With the price of rice rocketing and Sierra Leoneans finding it increasingly impossible to even eke out a living, the rather secretive and callous sale of the rice and flour meant for public consumption puts an additional burden on the APC government's call for transparency and zero tolerance - a mantra by which they have failed to live from the secretive electricity deals with Global Trading to the more shady dealings with Income Electrix which had not been mentioned in the initial deal.
In an unusual press statement, the foreign minister, Zainab Bangura, is featured as saying that the government will inform people about the shipload of rice and flour. However, it is evident that she may have been referring to the second consignment of rice which was promised by the Libyan leader after the president's February trip. Meanwhile, it is not known what has happened to the tractors that were part of the package. The government must be seen to account for its acts, and answer to the public when it fails to act in the interest of the public good by selling rice and flour meant for the general populace and pocketing all proceeds.
Subject: Re: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 04:52:32 03/15/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: c83-248-80-245.bredband.comhem.se at 83.248.80.245
Message:
Shekito where are you? The dogs are barking again!
Shekito the guy who caught SLPP bootlickers,obssessives and fanatics with their pants down should strike again with another crippling blow.These guys are 'Borgoh Pains' who require incessant whipping to help them come of age. Shekito the 'sowei' do your job!
Subject: Re: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 13:15:59 03/14/08 ()
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It cost the government of Sierra Leone a lot of money to defend itself on allegations made by these media outlets. There is a war of 'GET THEM TO DEFEND' so their attention is diverted away from the most important things waged by the SLPP sympathisers. They know quiet well that if they cook up allegations against the government, it will be forced to defend itself or risk being discredited and by doing so, it will cost them a lot of money because they (government) will have to collate evidence to exonorate themslves.
The rogue New People knows for sure that the rice promised by Gadaffi have not even arrived in Freetown. During the time of President Koroma's visit to Libya, Gadaffi pledged to assist Sierra Leone with food and tractors but that the tractors will be the ones to be immediately airlifted to Sierra Leone. It is barely a week ago after the pledge did the tractors were finally sent to Sierra Leone.
But the rogue New People claimed that the rice had already being sold before it even arrived. They shamelessly included in their report a picture taken from one of news sites of some Aid Agency to fool those who can easily be lured by their rhetrics.
Subject: Re: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 13:49:21 03/14/08 ()
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Message:
immmmmmmmmmmm...
Now where was this strategy mastered..?
If it worked before.. why not use it again...?
See.. try to be less passionate and more objective..
If accussed by the New People of selling the peoples rice, all the APC need do now to exonerate itself is get the Libyan Rice to Salone and have the New people discredited...
Its that easy...
Subject: Re: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 14:23:47 03/14/08 ()
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The rice is a gift which have not been conveyed to Freetown yet. The Libyan government promised to airlift tractors first before the rice and flour. They only conveyed the tractors and the rice is yet to be delivered. What prt of my post didn't you understand Candido?. I told you the last time its not a bad thing to be part of a political party, but it is bad to try and obstruct progress by the other party simply because you're no longer in power.
Please read again the first paragraph of my post it warns you of the tactics of this current opposition and the dangers associated with them. Sierra Leone cannot afford to dish out money unecessarily. That will be the case if the government have to defend against baseless allegations from rogue news outlets like the New People, they (New People) have nothing to loose as all they need to do is cook up stories and let the government defend itself. But it cost lots of money to defend these false stories.
I don't care about the rogue New People because I know for sure that their online newslet would not last for long once all stories are being utilised from their bogus book, the demise becomes iminent. The rogue New People are borne out of frustration so their anger is still very fresh once the APC begin to show sustainable progress, which I strongly believe will show you'll start to see them giving excuses for internet malfunction, trust me this is what is going to be the outcome of the rogue New People.
Just take a look at Awareness Times, they've started being objective in their propaganda after they discovered that their popularity is fading and that there's little to gain from this.
The APC have the political know how, they're capable of enticing even some die hard SLPP.
Subject: Re: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 16:54:58 03/14/08 ()
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Message:
I think its you not understanding my posting...
I am not saying you are wrong.. just that it should not bother you or the APC that much..
They benefited tremendiously from such media strategy..
So why cry wolf? Its like twins calling the othre ugly...DUhhhhhhhhhh..
----Simple.. my exception is this..
--------------------tactics of this current opposition and the dangers associated with them------------------
Now i just dont see how New People stories and Awareness Times satires can be remotely interpreted to """""Tactics of the current opposition and the dangers associated with them"""""""""".
Shoot me normoh or push me over a bank governors balcony.. but i dont see it.. and APC will be wasting our countries resources defending themselves from such stories..Just like you say...
Subject: Re: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: New lie lie people
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Date Posted: 09:06:10 03/14/08 ()
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Before departure, the President received fifteen air-freighted tractors at Lungi Airport as part of the assistance pledged by the Libyan Government during his state visit to Tripoli in February.
Subject: Re: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: Nor men dem
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Date Posted: 10:31:38 03/14/08 ()
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Just ignore the stupid detractors.
Subject: Re: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: Salone Police
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Date Posted: 08:09:35 03/15/08 ()
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Gentlemen do we have to describe opposition voices as "stupid detractors," "nasty tribalists," etc? Come one guys I thought our democracy was in its second decade?
As a former Police officer under the old APC, I would not in good conscience (and after exposure to democracy in the west) I want to be on record as saying that such a strategy is counterproductive and wrong.
Subject: Re: APC Government has Secretly Sold One Shipload of Rice and Fl
From: Put for me
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Date Posted: 00:58:00 03/16/08 ()
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Message:
"As a former Police officer under the old APC"
So how did you become 'former'?
Did they catch you doing Jovo toti for bribes on an illegal traffic baricade on the Freetown Waterloo Highway? C'mon tell the truth. Just between you and me, paddy.
Subject: Retributive justice awaits Sierra Leone tormentors!
From: From Exclusive
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Date Posted: 04:00:39 03/14/08 ()
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Message:
As ACC Sharpens its Teeth To Bite…SLPP Big Vons Indicted
Written by The Exclusive News Paper
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Sources close to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) have intimated The Exclusive that a number of officials of the former Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) have been indicted for corruption charges.According to sources, these alleged corrupt officials will soon be called up by the Commission for questioning.
This latest development by the ACC to start biting corrupt officials was, according to sources, triggered by what many refer to as "amazing revelations" of corruption in the Transitional Team (TT) report which was recently submitted to the ACC.
Impeccable sources have also intimated The Exclusive that the TT report now on the desk of the ACC boss has implicated lots of officials of the former SLPP government of corrupt practices while in office. Already, lots of concerned Sierra Leoneans have bemoaned the ACC for the delay in bringing to book alleged corrupt officials of the former government.
"Why the delay?" asked an elderly statesman, adding, "If it were the SLPP, they would have pushed the ACC to work faster. When it was the army boys, the SLPP wasted no time to institute a Court Marshal that led to the execution of the 24 gallant soldiers. If the SLPP can be so inhuman to kill 24 Sierra Leoneans for wrong doings, I see no reason why the current APC government should drag its feet in ensuring that corrupt officials of the former government are prosecuted."
Subject: Re: Retributive justice awaits Sierra Leone tormentors!
From: Jailor
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Date Posted: 10:37:32 03/14/08 ()
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Those who steal and pillage will go to jail
Subject: Much ado about nothing
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 01:42:17 03/14/08 ()
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I am happy that all this brouhaha about defacing the portrait of
President Koroma is finally dying down. These are the type of
unimportant news items that detract from the real issues facing Sierra
Leone; poverty, iliteracy, lack of access to health care and wanton and
rampant corruption.
Years ago the portrait of Mandela was unveiled in London, this was a
proud moment for all Africans as it was well deserved. When NPRC
took over, there were portraits of Strasser all over Freetown. He ended
up being an ineffectual leader whose contribution to Sierra Leone was
almost negligible. What has EBK done to deserve a portrait? This is
just how personality cults develop and we end up with leaders who
think they are better than the people.
Subject: Re: Much ado about nothing
From: Saidu Thonronka
To: All
Date Posted: 11:37:49 03/14/08 ()
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Message:
Bra E nailed this issue yesterday with his intellectual prowess. Let us move on to something else.
Subject: The $4,500 Gal: Honestly, She's Not All That Pretty!
From: His Royal Highness
To: All
Date Posted: 01:11:09 03/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Subject: Re: The $4,500 Gal: Honestly, She's Not All That Pretty!
From: Way to go
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Date Posted: 12:01:08 03/14/08 ()
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Message:
That was for three additional sessions.She got paid in advance.then..........That was a priced Cow.
Subject: Re: The $4,500 Gal: Honestly, She's Not All That Pretty!
From: Borbor lef!
To: All
Date Posted: 10:27:04 03/14/08 ()
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Her other pictures are more exquisite. Anyways for 4,500 bucks an hour, you can have a thousand virgins ululating and singing your praises!
Subject: Re: The $4,500 Gal: Honestly, She's Not All That Pretty!
From: His Royal Highness
To: All
Date Posted: 13:34:34 03/14/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The other pics are mostly art work. This one is real with no pan cake on the face.
Subject: Address for Kabs to report abuser
From: Detective
To: All
Date Posted: 21:40:49 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
abuse-mailbox: abuse@uk.tiscali.com
Kabs, Town Crier did a good job for you. Just use the above-address to report Gongoli, the person harassing you on the internet . This is the address of the Internet cafe he/she is using. They will catch him/her.
Subject: Hilary aint never been called a N*&&%r
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 21:04:04 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
check his out
Subject: Re: Hilary aint never been called a N*&&%r
From: Fen Plaba!
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Date Posted: 21:22:56 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
How Obama deals with his pastor's rhetoric will determine whether he wins the nomination. The Clinton camp and the Republicans are gonna bloody Obama with this. By the time they finish with Obama, gullible voters will be made to believe he is an anti-Semite and an unpatriotic UnAmerican. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and the other Talk Show ghouls are already spinning this story into the toilet!
Subject: Re: Hilary aint never been called a N*&&%r
From: His Royal Highness
To: All
Date Posted: 21:59:03 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
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Subject: Swiftboating President Ernest Koroma: SLPP Unu lef ranka!
From: Fufu en sawasawa
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Date Posted: 19:10:56 03/13/08 ()
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Message:
11 years of SLPP misrule. Results:
Rabid tiffy-tiffyism. The SLPP bled the country blind and looted the national treasury. And in a stunning display of brass-ballism, their tiff minister of Finance had the audacity to lie to the entire world, arms akimbo, that SLPP left 300 billion trillion leones in the treasury! Of course the Gongoli Times and the Kondo New People propaganda Koro papers ran with the lie, under the guise of free speech. Problem with John Benjamin's lie: When the treasury was actually audited, only two crumpled Le5000 bills were found under the carpet. SLPP den tiff all ting!
The current economic plight the country is enduring is simply the SLPP Yibas coming home to roost. We are paying the price of the economic mismanagement and broke ose politics of the SLPP. And these economic retards, instead of apologising to the people for their uncontrollable kleptocracy, are now beating the drums of blame against the 5 month-old govt of EBK.
SLPP, your swiftboat tactics won't work. APC go win makolo! Ee hart U, go drink mampama from bos buli!
Subject: Youve gotta watch this. Olberman slams Clinton campaign
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 16:48:22 03/13/08 ()
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Folks this is democracy and free press at work. Youve gotta watch this episode.
Subject: The Taylor Factor
From: Researcher
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Date Posted: 15:42:01 03/13/08 ()
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Message:
Did you say Massar Sarrgin Doe?
Subject: Testimony of Zig Zag Marzah (Charles Taylor Trial)
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 15:02:14 03/13/08 ()
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5:00 - Defense: “Zigzag” Marzah wasn’t senior enough to take orders from Taylor
Posted by Webmaster on March 13, 2008
Court is back in session following lunch.
Lead Defense Counsel Courtenay Griffiths continues his cross examination of prosecution witness Joseph D. “Zigzag” Marzah:
Def: (referencing document) Can you tell us what Sankoh’s intention was when he formed the RUF?
Wit: Before the introduction of Foday Sankoh, we never knew about the RUF. Taylor and Sankoh arranged that he was going to Sierra Leone to have a war there. Taylor sent Sankoh to take complete control over Sierra Leone and fight against the government, so that the forces of Freetown would not continue to help the forces of Doe to fight against us.
Def: (referencing document): “The operation was for Sankoh to become president of Sierra Leone by overthrowing the government. Taylor would get something in return for helping.” So that was Sankoh’s intention, to overthrow the government?
Wit: It was Taylor’s intention, who sent him there.
Def: Then why isn’t that in this paragraph?
Wit: I did explain to the prosecutor that the purpose Taylor sent him for was to go and become president of Sierra Leone, and moreover that the forces of Freetown would no longer attack us.
Def: You agree, when Sierra Leone was invaded, the intention was to overthrow the government?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Returning to the invasion of Liberia. Following the incursion by revolutionary fighters and formation of the NPFL, a dispute arose, and Prince Johnson broke off to form the Independent NPFL, is that right?
Wit: Yes, Prince Johnson left because he escaped death.
Def: And it’s right, isn’t it, that President Doe was executed by Johnson’s NPFL?
Wit: Yes, due to Taylor’s actions, which caused Johnson to kill Doe.
Def: What did Charles Taylor do to get the INPFL to kill Doe?
Wit: Prince Johnson was not the battlegroup for the freedom fighters. He was not appointed by Charles Taylor. The late William Obie was appointed by Taylor. Obie was considered a coward, so Johnson took the initiative to cross with us on Dec 24th. When Johnson sent a letter about the good job the special forces did, these same special forces opened the envelope and told Taylor that Johnson wanted to take his position. Taylor ordered him executed. That’s when Johnson split. That’s how Johnson established the INPFL. In the case of the arrest of Doe, he was happy to put the case of Doe to Charles Taylor, so that he could interview Doe about the atrocities during his time. The boys of Prince Johnson were happy. They were about to go to Gbarnga. Taylor ordered us, and me personally, to execute the men. Johnson was afraid and the next day, Doe was executed.
Def: Did Taylor order Doe’s execution?
Wit: No.
Def: (references document): “In 1991, Marzah, along with a number of other NPFL combat commanders, Atubatu, Hungry Lion, Enosi Ewon, Yassir Arafat, Paul B. Harry, Morris Kalubu and Anthony K?[lists several names] were called to Harbel Hill outside Monrovia for a meeting at the Firestone plantation. The meeting was called by Taylor. When he arrived, he met Sankoh, who was with at least 15 other Sierra Leonean soldiers. Witness stated the Sierra Leoneans told them they disappeared during the Momoh presidency. Taylor said the meeting was to set an agenda for Sankoh to take power in Sierra Leone. Witness said all were NPFL, and the term RUF was never used. Witness and others were told that by sending Sankoh to Sierra Leone, the SL army would not be able to help the AFL fight against the NPFL.” Correct?
Wit: Yes, it’s correct.
Def: You said that the NPFL was justified in invading Liberia to overthrow Doe?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Whilst the NPFL were justifiably seeking to overthrow Doe, the Sierra Leonean joined on the side of the Liberian army, and that was causing problems for the NPFL’s justified attempt to overthrow Doe?
Wit: Yes.
Def: When Sierra Leone was invaded, that was in order to protect the revolution in Liberia, wasn’t it?
Wit: Yes, and also to take over the government in Sierra Leone.
Def: Special Forces were those members of the RUF/NPFL who had been trained in Liberia?
Wit: A majority of the Special Forces were trained in Burkina. They came in with Taylor. The group of NPFL along with those who came in with Charles Taylor came in before Sierra Leoneans could be recruited.
Def: What about the Vanguards?
Wit: There was another Liberian group. Before that, every…
Def: Were the Vanguards those trained at Camp Nama?
Wit: No, they were the ones who were mining for themselves in Freetown. They didn’t want to report to Sankoh, so Sankoh turned them over to Taylor and they all were executed. There were 162 of them.
Def: Who were the junior commandos?
Wit: The vanguards were those who did not take orders. We were all junior commandos. The group they killed at Nama…
Def: Is it not right that there was a hierarchy between the special forces, vanguards and junior commandos?
Wit: No. Those who did not abide by the orders were vanguards. It meant “outlaws”.
Def: It was not the case that the Special Forces were at the top of the pecking order?
Wit: No. No Special Forces were called Vanguards.
Def: I want to ask about names. Do you remember an officer named Cooper Woyah?
Wit: I know him. He was at Bropleh.
Def: Do you know a Special Forces member named Edward Mehln?
Wit: He was my first battalion commander.
Def: So Edward Mehln was a special forces officer?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Solomon Siawah?
Wit: No, Solomon Salameh (sp?), he was one of the special forces.
[Griffiths consults privately with Charles Taylor.]
Def: Solomon Siaweh (sp?) You know him?
Wit: Yes, I know him.
Def: What about Joe Tuoh?
Wit: He was a Special Forces. He’s now spearheading a rebellion in Ivory Coast.
Def: What about Peter Siadeh (sp?)
Wit: Peter Sepeteh (sp?) was one of the Special Forces.
Def: What about Alfred Mehn? (sp?)
Wit: Yes, he was called Godfather.
Def: What about John Gubbay?
Wit: I know him.
Def: Samuel Varney?
Wit: yes.
Def: Tiagen Wantee?
Wit: He was ambassador in Guinea.
Def: Do you agree that all of these individuals were much more senior to you in the NPFL?
Wit: Yes, they were my most senior officers.
Def: After the invasion of Sierra Leone, there was friction between the Sierra Leoneans and Liberians?
Wit: Yes.
Def: And there was a falling out between Sankoh and Taylor?
Wit: No, the dispute was only between the junior commandos who didn’t follow instructions- the vanguards. They were executed.
Def: Shortly after that friction developed, ULIMO invaded Liberia, didn’t it?
Wit: It was not the dispute that caused ULIMO to invade Liberia.
Def: Was it at about the same time?
Wit: No. The problem that happened at the frontline happened before ULIMO could exist.
Def: After ULIMO invaded, ULIMO took control of Lofa County?
Wit: Yes. At the time, the Sierra Leonean government had taken complete control, then ULIMO took control of Lofa.
Def: So the NPFL was cut off from the RUF?
Wit: Yes. The supply line was cut completely. The RUF was in bushes, but still in touch with Taylor.
Def: When ULIMO invaded, they used to put human heads on sticks too?
Wit: I don’t know about ULIMO activity.
Def: After the election in 1997 which saw Taylor democratically elected as president of Liberia, what was your role within the Liberian government?
Wit: I was assigned directly to transport arms and ammunition to Freetown and take my salary from the SS.
Def: Were you an orderly to Benjamin Yeaten?
Wit: Not to Yeaten per se, but directly under Charles Taylor. Taylor said that any instruction from Ben were his instructions.
Def: Do you know Varmuyan Sherif?
Wit: Yes, very well.
Def: Were you more or less senior than Varmuyan Sherif after Taylor’s election.
Wit: Only Yeaten was more senior. Sherif was not my underman, but all of them gave me full respect due to my position.
Def: The person you knew as Sherif - what was his role after Taylor’s election?
Wit: Varmuyan Sherif was fighting for ULIMO-J. Later all of them submitted themselves. He was appointed by Taylor as a close bodyguard at the mansion.
Def: Was he in the SSS?
Wit: Yes, a full colonel.
Def: What was your rank?
Wit: I didn’t have a specific rank. I was chief of operations. A time came when they called me provost marshal general.
Def: You didn’t have a rank?
Wit: I was a full colonel after Taylor initially made me a captain.
Def: After Taylor’s election as president, what rank did you have then?
Wit: After the election I was serving as full colonel at the executive mansion, but on the military field, I was a major general.
Def: Did you remain a major general and colonel?
Wit: I was only a colonel for salary purposes for Taylor. I stayed a major general.
Def: When were you a captain?
Wit: At the time when Ben executed Sam Dokie. I was not there. When I came back, I was annoyed and used provocative language against Ben. Taylor said I should be dismissed. Three days later they said I was a captain.
Def: You were demoted?
Wit: Yes.
Def: So it would be wrong to describe you as an orderly to Benjamin Yeaten?
Wit: Benjamin was SS Director. But down to Defense Minister and all, everyone was subjected to him.
Def: Would it be right to describe you as an orderly to Benjamin Yeaten?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Would it be right to describe you as Yeaten’s bodyguard?
Wit: No. I took instructions from Yeaten, but I was not a bodyguard to Ben.
Def: I suggest is that you were never in such a high position in Liberia or the NPFL, to ever take orders from Charles Taylor.
Wit: (laughs) When something’s funny, I always laugh.
Def: I suggest you were never of such a rank to take orders directly from Charles Taylor.
Wit: I took orders from Charles Taylor from time immemorial up until the end of the NPFL. I’m telling the truth.
Def: What town were you born in, in Nimba County?
Wit: I was born in Soesenlay.
Def: Is it right that between 1990, when you joined the NPFL, you lived in Gbarnga, Kakata, Bong County?
Wit: I went where I was ordered.
Def: Were you driven from Nimba County for bad behavior?
Wit: No, I have lived there since the war began.
Def: Would you agree that you joined the NPFL in late 1990?
Wit: I told you when you joined the NPFL. I was one of those who crossed with Prince Johnson.
Def: Were you with Paul Wehyee at Firestone Plantation in Margibi County?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Is it right that in 1993, you became part of the Jungle Fire Unit in the NPFL?
Wit: Yes. It was a special operation until for Taylor anywhere there was a serious obstacle. Yeaten headed it.
Def: Is it right that you were then assigned as MP commander in Tapeta in Nimba County, under a commander called Straightly By the Board (sp?)?
Wit: No.
Def: Were you assigned as MP commander in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County?
Wit: No, I only went there to disarm ECOMOG troops.
Def: Were you arrested in 1993 by Col Gbor Vaye and Gbajulue (sp?) in Tapeta for unnecessary harassment of civilians?
Wit: No. What I remember is Christopher Varmoh’s younger brother who was in grand Gedeh…
Def: Were you at any stage put in jail?
Wit: Recently, in the early part of 2003, Benjamin arrested me when he attempted to rape my wife. Our leader, Charles Taylor, intervened. He wanted to cause damage and he did.
Def: Were you ever arrested for harassment of civilians?
Wit: No
Def: Whilst a member of the Jungle Fire Unit, were you ever deployed to Lofa County to fight ULIMO?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Were you expelled from the Jungle Fire Unit for cannibalism?
Wit: No. Yeaten told me to go to Freetown on Taylor’s orders.
Def: Were you expelled from the Jungle Fire Unit?
Wit: No. I served in most of the units of the NPFL.
Def: There was a time when you ceased being a member of the Jungle Fire Unit.
Wit: There were times I fought with them.
Def: Did you ever leave the unit?
Wit: No, it existed until the peace talks.
Def: You never left?
Wit: I was sent to Sierra Leone to bring back RUF.
Def: You left the Jungle Fire Unit and were assigned to the Army Division in Bomi County?
Wit: That’s a lie.
Def: Were you arrested and jailed for six months for acts unbecoming a soldier?
Wit: No. It was only Ben who detained me in Monrovia when he tried to rape my wife. Taylor freed me.
Def: At the time of the LURD invasion, you were in prison?
Wit: No.
Def: You were only released from prison after the outbreak of the LURD invasion?
Wit: No.
Def: Yesterday you told us that you would mostly need to sign a paper whenever you were to be given arms - you would give it to Kai (sp?), who would take it to Taylor. Correct?
Wit: Yes.
Def: (references document): “The witness stated that he was in possession of copies of the manifests he signed for the weapons and ammunition and was prepared to turn these over to the Office of the Prosecutor.” Did you tell them this?
Wit: Yes. But later, I came back and told them that most of the documents in my home were destroyed.
Def: At one stage earlier in your questioning, it appeared that you suggested you gave such documentation to them. Have you ever given them such documentation?
Wit: I showed them some papers, but mostly they were concerned for documents about Sierra Leone.
Def: What documents were you talking about when you said there were manifests for the weapons and ammunition?
Wit: I was talking about the document that assigned me from Liberia to Freetown.
Def: Where are those documents now.
Wit: They were destroyed since 2003. I was never at my home, I was at the warfront.
Def: When did you go home?
Wit: I went back to my home in 2003.
Def: So why did you tell prosecutors in 2006 that you had the documents, if they had been destroyed three years earlier?
Wit: I thought some of the documents would be in Monrovia. Those documents were destroyed. The ones I showed to them were not related to Sierra Leone.
Def: In Feb 2006, did you have those documents in your possession.
Wit: No.
Def: What were you hoping to gain by telling investigators that you had them?
Wit: I was hoping I still had them where I was living.
Def: If they were burned, why did you tell them you had them?
Wit: I came to Monrovia when Stinga called for me. I had hope that some of the people in the community might have taken some things from my house to save them. But when I went back I learned everything was destroyed. I told the investigators, if I found the documents, I would bring them for them.
Def: Did you tell the investigators you had these documents in order to make yourself look like a big witness?
Wit: Yes, I am important. I told them I would look for the documents.
Def: You knew that if you told them this, you increased your importance as a witness, didn’t you?
Wit: Yes.
Def: (addressing judges) There may be an issue in the next question that may need to be asked in closed session. I can deal with matter generally now, and come back later to the sensitive aspect in closed session.
Pros: We may now have the same problem because of how he just described the process.
Defense explains again and prosecution accepts.
Def: You told investigators that when you handed over arms to people in Sierra Leone, that person would have to sign a receipt for the arms and ammunition. Is that right?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Where are those receipts now?
Wit: The government that we were running, everything went by procedure. I gave the receipts to G4 Moses, who gave them to Kai, who took them to Taylor.
Def: When you received material at White Flower or anywhere, you were given documentation?
Wit: Before I went to White Flower, I would only sign for the ammunition and leave the documents with the G4. When I took them from there, they would give me a document, and the RUF commanders would sign that they received them from me. I would take back the document.
Def: [reviews this procedure again] Is that right?
Wit: Yes.
Def: If that’s right, you would be left with any documents to give to anyone. So which documents were burned in your house?
Wit: It came a time when I was highly trusted, so that any time I took arms or ammo, and Bockarie signed. Moses would not take the documents. Taylor would confirm the delivery by radio. I had up to 15 documents in my possession.
Def: Under what circumstances would you end up with documents in your possession?
Wit: When Taylor had trust in somebody, and after he spoke with Mosquito, he didn’t care about paper.
Def: Then why did you have any documentation to hand over. What documentation did you have to hand over?
Wit: If LURD didn’t destroy my house, I would have the documents to show the prosecutor. I had documents in my possession. Sometimes I was never asked to hand in the documents.
Def: Yesterday you told us this: After ULIMO disarmed, I made many trips to Sierra Leone. At the time Mosquito was there up to the time Issa was in charge. I made 20-40 trips.
Wit: Yes. More than that.
Def: So your arms-carrying trips to Sierra Leone started in about 1996?
Wit: I started transporting arms when ULIMO was in Lofa and when the government of Sierra Leone took over. That’s when I started passing arms through Guinea.
Def: Can you remember when the first time was that you took arms to Sierra Leone?
Wit: The first arms I carried was the first time we were called to Sierra Leone. Taylor sent for us to go back for the second phase. After ULIMO took over Lofa County and the SL government took over Freetown, there was no way to supply the RUF. So he told me to take arms with kola nuts to pass through Guinea.
Def: Can you give me the year?
Wit: I told you that since the first phase, when we were first moving, that was the time.
Def: Apart from the initial NPFL/RUF invasion of Sierra Leone, when was the first time you transported arms to Sierra Leone?
Wit: After the invasion, at that time Eddie Kanneh and all of the others were with us. I can’t recall the dates and the year.
Def: (references document): This is a record of an interview you in March 2006: “The witness stated that the first time he shipped or transported arms and ammunition from Liberia to Sierra Leone was in late 1996.” Is that true or false?
Wit: That is false. It was before this time - from the second phase, when we entered to Koindu and Beudu.
Def: Did you make your first shipment of arms and ammunition from Liberia to Sierra Leone in late 1996?
Wit: That’s true. I started transporting arms and ammunition from 1991 until the people closed the road and ULIMO took over. I started in 1996 again. That was the third phase you’re talking about. The white people who took the statement had difficulty understanding me.
Def: On the next day you said the same thing to them again. (References document): “He stated that from late 1996 he was personally involved in up to three shipments a month from Taylor’s White Flower in Monrovia.” True or false?
Wit: True, from White Flower, but they don’t mention the times from Gbarnga.
Def: Why is it that in your first interview in January 2006 (references document): “witness further stated that he himself was on at least 20 runs from Liberia to Sierra Leone. These occurred in 1996/1997. Witness stated he had no further Sierra Leone-related activity from 1998 on.” Is all of that true or false?
Wit: It’s true. But they forgot about Gbarnga, before we could enter Monrovia. They only based it on 1996-1997. That’s not my complete statement.
Def: The arms you were transporting: how did they get into Liberia?
Wit: We used to go to the airport to receive it. That’s where the Russian air cargo plane used to come. Once a plane had an accident and there was a lot of damage. Taylor stopped all international security from going there. Some used to come through Ivory Coast.
Def: How many flights carrying arms do you know about coming into Roberts International Airfield?
Wit: Many times. Sometimes when the flight comes, it will take a month or two or three months, then it will come again. I saw it nine different times, including the one Mosquito went and collected. That made it ten.
Def: You recall 9 flights?
Wit: At times I was at the front and the flight came in my absence. I’m telling you the ones I know of.
Def: So you know of about ten or so?
Wit: The ten did not come within one year. I can’t be on the scene all the time. Sometimes I received some through Buchanan port.
Def: I’m asking how many flights you were present at.
Wit: Up to ten. Most of the arms I used after that I received at Buchanan port from one white man.
Def: How many flights into RIA were you involved with?
Wit: All in all, about ten.
Def: (references document) “Witness stated that he was involved in over 100 trips with arms and ammunition that were flown into Roberts International and taken from Shefflin.”
Wit: The trips I made with those weapons, it was more than 100 plus trips.
Def: It would be wrong to say you were involved in more than 100 trips of arms and ammunition to Roberts International?
Wit: I experienced about ten. I made over a hundred trips with the weapons. Most came through Buchanan port.
Def: Is it right you were never involved in over 100 trips of ammunition flown into Roberts International airport?
Wit: I made trips to Freetown - over 100. There were so many times. When I myself went into the plane. There was a ship at Grand Bassa, and I made over 20-30 trips from there.
Def: What grade did you reach in school?
Wit: I didn’t go to school.
Def: I suggest you’re lying about that. You say that Doe sent an illiterate man all the way to Israel to train. How did you read the training manuals?
Wit: I have a natural brain. I have stayed long with the Congo people and I speak some English, which may lead you to think I can read and write.
Def: How did you cope with the training in Israel if you couldn’t read or write.
Wit: My being to Israel was because I’m very intelligent in doing anything. I can’t read and write at all. Those who know me know that. But when you see me dressed in a suit, you think I’m a minister. I have a natural brain.
Def: Then how did you spell the name of the village where you were born?
Wit: The name of my village has nothing to do with the investigation.
Def: Please spell it.
Wit: S-e-n-l-a-y. Senlay. It’s my birth town. From time immemorial, even my church put this on my document.
Judge Sebutinde: Can you count?
Wit: Yes, sometimes I can count above 75. I can count.
Judge Sebutinde: If you took 100 and subtracted 10, what would you have left?
Wit: Let me make sure.
Judge Sebutinde: I want to be sure that when you say 100, you literally mean 100 and not “many”.
Wit: 1-0-0 means you did things plenty of times.
Def: Arms were shipped into Liberia into Roberts International airport and Buchanan port?
Wit: Yes.
Def: You collected arms from both locat1ons and took them to be stored in Monrovia?
Wit: Not to a store, to my president, Charles Taylor’s houre.
Def: Where were the arms coming from that came to Roberts International Airport?
Wit: I heard from Yeaten when he came with the white man, he said some came from Burkina, some from the white people’s country. Some was from Libya. The white man came from the chaser from America. He came to inspect the old World War I building by the airport, for it to be renovated. I heard that.
Def: Did you hear about arms coming from anywhere else?
Wit: Yes, these three areas I have named. During Octopus, they brought some kind of arms in a big truck. Taylor said it came from Ivory Coast. He himself was driving it.
Def: You were told where these arms originated from, and you told us Libya, Burkina Faso and the United States. Did you hear of arms coming from anywhere else?
Wit: No.
Def: (references document): “When asked the source of the weapons, the witness said, from all over Europe, but declined to say how he knew this.” Who told you that?
Wit: The first time I knew Europe was this trip I’ve made. I considered Europe to be America.
Def: Who told you the arms came from Europe.
Wit: Benjamin Yeaten, Joe Tuoh, [another man].
Def: Why did you tell me two minutes ago that the deliveries only came from
Wit: America is the same thing as Europe. The white people’s home I know is America. This is the first time I came to the other side.
Def: All white people are the same?
Wit: I thought you were African. I don’t know if there are black people in America.
Def: Libya, Burkina Faso, America, Europe, anywhere else? [references document]: “witness stated Taiwanese used to send arms, ammunition and uniforms”
Wit: Yes. I’m sorry I forgot about that one. Yes.
Court is adjourning the day.
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Subject: Kabs, this is your harasser. Report to the FBI
From: Town Crier
To: All
Date Posted: 14:29:00 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Kabs Kanu, don't worry about your harasser's criticism of your picture. We all know you are a handsome man. The person is just jealous of you and your Mercedes Benz.I helped you to investigate. My take is that this person is using an internet cafe in England or Sierra Leone. The server for the internet cafe may be in the UK. However, this enquiry shows you the organization whose server is being used .All you have to do now is pass on this info to the FBI . The person has many more computers to use .The cafe has 255 computers.
This is the RIPE Whois query server #3.
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inetnum: 79.64.0.0 - 79.79.255.255
org: ORG-TUL3-RIPE
netname: UK-TELINCO-20070619
descr: Tiscali UK Limited
country: GB
tech-c: TU935-RIPE
admin-c: TU935-RIPE
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
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mnt-routes: TU935-RIPE-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
organisation: ORG-TUL3-RIPE
org-name: Tiscali UK Limited
org-type: LIR
address: Tiscali UK Limited
Graham Duke
Breckland,
Linford Wood
MK14 6LB Milton Keynes
UNITED KINGDOM
phone: +44 207 087 2000
fax-no: +44 207 087 2295
abuse-mailbox: abuse@uk.tiscali.com
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admin-c: GD9105-RIPE
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role: Tiscali UK
address: Tiscali UK Limited
address: 20 Broadwick Street
address: London W1F 8HT
phone: +44 207 087 2000
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admin-c: DC-RIPE
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nic-hdl: TU935-RIPE
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Subject: Re: Kabs, this is your harasser. Report to the FBI
From: This Says Nothing
To: All
Date Posted: 03:16:45 03/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-75-53-202-20.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 75.53.202.20
Message:
Town Crier, a server can be anywhere and serve any number of computers. Besides, server info can be spoofed. This information does nothing and Gongoli's childish calumny against Rev is not such an important security matter for even the local Somerset village police not to mention the FBI.
Ignore the fool and he will tire himself out.
Subject: Re: Kabs, this is your harasser. Report to the FBI
From: Town Crier (the real one)
To: All
Date Posted: 16:27:15 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 198.208.251.24
Message:
Please cease and desist from using this handle. This is copyrighted..
Get your own...
Subject: St. Joseph's Convent School Website
From: Webmaster
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:34 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-66-140-34-87.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net at 66.140.34.87
Message:
Our St. Edward's Alumni has created a website for our sister school, St. Joseph's Secondary School. We are asking those of you whose wives, sisters or relatives attended/are attending the school to help us with info needed to complete the site. We need pics of the school building, the school crest and info about the staff and the school year.
Please visit using link below. And yes, unlike State House website, it does say "Site under construction".
Thanks for all your help.
Subject: Leatherboot, 19 Other Ex-Combatants Return From Morocco
From: Leather Boot
To: All
Date Posted: 11:12:28 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 129.49.7.126
Message:
Leatherboot, 19 Other Ex-Combatants Return From Morocco
Written by The Exclusive News Paper
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Leatherboot and some of his comrades in arms
Twenty ex-combatants who were absorbed into the Operation Support Division (OSD) of the Sierra Leone Police Force past January by President Ernest Bai Koroma have returned home after completing a month and half training on close protection bodyguard in the Moroccan capital Rabat. The twenty officers including former members of the Sierra Leone Army led by Idrissa Kanu (alias Leatherboot) last Friday paid a courtesy call on President Koroma at State House. They will now serve as close protection bodyguards to President Koroma.
Leatherboot and others were members of the APC Task Force that was providing security to both Ernest Koroma and Mr. Samuel Sam Sumana during last year's parliamentary and presidential elections. These men worked in the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces in the early nineties and later joined forces with the then Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) which invaded the capital in January 6, 1999 and caused a lot of mayhem in the city and other areas in the provinces especially the North and Kono in Eastern Sierra Leone.
Leatherboot and team are expected to work directly under the directives of the Director OSD, Assistant Inspector General David S. Sesay and are also expected to undertake another training to make them to be more equipped in their roles and functions.
Speaking on behalf of his colleagues last Friday at State House, Leatherboot noted that they had a vigorous training and, eventually excelled through out their stay in Morocco.
President Koroma, however, congratulated them on going through the exercise successfully them for the training, and urged them to perform their roles as expected of the people.
Subject: Re: Leatherboot, 19 Other Ex-Combatants Return From Morocco
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 12:38:15 03/13/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 82.99.234.217
Message:
Listen! I have to be honest with myself and admit, quite frankly, that I've never heard of this guy's name before. Notwithstanding, I don't know exactly how I feel, or, as we sometimes say, I really can't point a finger at it, but honestly, the name sounds reassuring! "Leatherboot" What a name!
But that was just the beginning! Although I was expecting to see someone in uniform with some thick boots on, I was never actually prepared for the "Bigger-Joe" appearance that greeted me from the screen. The guy looks like "Majagbay" that was once living at 66 Fourah Bay Road! I know, if one could only hear him speak, the pitch of his voice would sound a warning to would-be aggressors! Love the look of things! Love the decision! Love the transformation! These guys have a job to do ...... and it's important for the country's national security!
Subject: Re: Leatherboot returns...Tom Nyuma weeps!
From: Tom Nyuma is crying!
To: All
Date Posted: 11:46:02 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.83
Message:
I just got this hot news from Kailahun. As soon as Tom Nyuma heard that Leatherboot is back in Freetown, he immediately, tearfully resigned from the SLPP. He cried that he had suffered mercillessly from the drastic boot of Leatherboot when he attempted to assassinate then-Candidate Ernest Koroma in Bo during the elections. Nyuma says that he is now very allergic to pain, especially of the kanda-belleh kind Leatherboot is known to specialize in administering. Nyuma is said to also be contemplating applying for political asylum in Liberia until Leatherboot is like 80 years old.
Sylvia Blyden has meanwhile urged her Ronsho staff not to ever write anything nasty about Leatherboot. She has in fact started ingratiating herself by calling him " My dear, sweet Leatherboot brother..". The little gongoli wench!
Subject: Re: Leatherboot returns...Tom Nyuma weeps!
From: Boli
To: All
Date Posted: 11:55:20 03/13/08 ()
Email Address: boli@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-54-76.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.54.76
Message:
How childish of you to promote violence. I am surprised the moderator has not admonished you for that and calling Sylvia a 'little gongoli wench'. have you seen KABS lately?
Subject: Re: Leatherboot returns...Tom Nyuma weeps!
From: The New Sierra leone
To: All
Date Posted: 10:41:36 03/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 82.198.250.75
Message:
Boli,
You are right, this is so stupid. But then this is what Kabbs Kanu enjoys.....Violence he thinks is the answer..when the new party comes to power to throw violece at the other. Yes my friend we will never learn.The SLPP was doing Democracy and all the book business, next time they know better believe me they know better.It may take 10 or even 20 years but things will change.
Subject: Re: Leatherboot returns...Tom Nyuma weeps!
From: Eddie Grant
To: All
Date Posted: 13:32:30 03/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 89.240.47.109
Message:
It sounds as if you're planning to inflict violence in the next elctions. If thats what you're planning, then you'll be dead before 2012 or whenever you think the SLPP should win by rigging.
My friend violence will no longer rule our country, find another stragedy.
Subject: Re: Leatherboot returns...Tom Nyuma weeps!
From: Tom Nyuma is crying!
To: All
Date Posted: 16:37:11 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Bo Boli go pack nar kornar. How am I promoting violence, you slippery little rascal? I am only reporting the news from Sierra Leone from my sources, which by the way are a whole lot more credible than the scandalously lie-lie, tiff-tiff sources of The Gongoliwareness Times and the Lie People newspaper. As for my apt descr1ption of your goddess Sylvia as a 'gongoli wench', I stand by my opinion with good reason mon ami.
Subject: Re: Leatherboot, 19 Other Ex-Combatants Return From Morocco
From: O.J SIMPSON- 100% NOT GUILTY
To: All
Date Posted: 11:22:33 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-158-46-174.range86-158.btcentralplus.com at 86.158.46.174
Message:
HE NOR KNOE, EN HE NOR UNDERSTAND NATIN. WELCOME OJ(LEATHER BOOT) THE MAN SLPP TRIED TO BRING DOWN BUT IN VAIN....HEY BAFOUDIA PIKIN
Subject: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Bra Enviable
To: All
Date Posted: 08:19:58 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
A lot of drama has been generated over the recent defacement of President Koroma's portrait in Bo. Any country with a barely-educated electorate can have a proclivity toward confrontational politics, and in the case of Sierra Leone, the newness of democracy tends to make clashes more attractive than debates. A well-established democracy hinged upon legal precepts, could have resolved the Bo Town incident through debates and threats of legal action. A politically young electorate needs time, and political education, before it can acquire the sophistication to resolve issues within the ambit of the legal system. In the case of Sierra Leone, the political establishment can help democracy grow by using radio programs and other mediums of communication to teach tolerance to a population unaccustomed to democratic politics.
As Bo Town stirred with unrest over the president's portrait, I noticed a disturbing fact that went largely unnoticed by politically-awakened Sierra Leoneans. Presidential portraits are normally associated with personality cults and the backward politics of the "African Strongman". Simply put, the exhibition of presidential portraits in many African countries is synonymous with military dictators, civilian autocrats, and sit-tight leaders obsessed with self-promotion. Before the advent of multi-party politics, personality cults were consummated in Africa with widespread presidential portraits put on display to immortalize iron-fisted rulers. The underfed young men from the APC and SLPP who fought over President Koroma's portrait were sadly replaying the African past that stagnated the continent under servile forms of hero-worshiping.
Presidential effigies and portraits will not lift Sierra Leone out of poverty. As food prices rise in a country that can barely feed itself, Sierra Leoneans should be channeling civil energies into activities designed to prod elected leaders into progressive modes of governance. Fighting over presidential portraits in a country with thin democratic threads, could nudge the president into thinking that he is the Godfather of the nation.
"The Godfather of the Nation" is an obsolete title, created during Africa's "silly season" when military rulers and civilian despots spent prolonged periods in power tyrannizing over their people. Sierra Leone does not need a ubiquity of presidential portraits, displayed as though the nation was having a rendition of Mobutu Sese Seko's "Strong Man" rule. If our democracy is to survive the manifold problems arrayed against it, the underfed APC and SLPP youths who clashed in Bo Town, should be kept busy with education and jobs needed keep body and soul together. The same presidential portrait being fought over in Bo Town could be torn, and even burnt, by the same APC and SLPP youths when President Koroma's popularity hits rock-bottom. This democracy was birthed to give Sierra Leone a new lease of life. Portrait-production for the "Strong Man" is a waste of time in country that is hungry to a ravenous extent.
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Fufu en sawasawa
To: All
Date Posted: 11:02:05 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.86
Message:
Free speech is good, brade en bota is also good.
Just wanna add these few words of mine...
1) After the SLPP won the first elections, the first people to embrace the SLPP govt were Northerners: Remember Thaimu Bangura and Sorbeh? Effigies of Kabba were not burnt in Magburaka or Makeni. The President was accepted as the prez of all Sierra Leone. That's the way it was, that's the way it should be.
2) After Ernest won these past elections, SLPP partisans have been viciously undercutting the president's authority with their cowboys and call girls in the press who say that EBK is a Northern, marginal president and have been screaming Northernization and other conspiracy theories. You now understand the raw emotions of the portraits?
3) We can all go back to finding solutions to the country's many problems when SLPP gives us a chance to recover from the last elections. Instead of fanning flames of discord 24/7, SLPP should take a break from campaigning for the 2012 elections. They too can help find bread solutions instead of paying their thugs to spray graffiti on portraits in Bo.
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portra
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 01:53:11 03/14/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 32.147.72.255
Message:
Shekito you were college mate and I know when you write.
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Factual
To: All
Date Posted: 10:26:30 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
This is Bra Enviable at his best. Points well made bra.
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Estella Goba
To: All
Date Posted: 10:42:38 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.86
Message:
I'm in love again with the sharp-minded cerebral adonis that is Bra Enviable. A true SLPP cadre but a greater patriot of Sierra Leone. I will dream of your strong arms tonight sweetness!
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Pedro Da Cintra
To: All
Date Posted: 08:37:36 03/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130
Message:
Man shalt not live by bread alone.
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Stokes
To: All
Date Posted: 09:02:46 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 71.30.178.100
Message:
That is why there is butter. Comprehend?
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: David Bangura
To: All
Date Posted: 10:10:18 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: wanglobe.hilton.com at 192.251.125.85
Message:
People are so idle in that country that things that are important are not talked about. defacing the potrait of a president is part of free speech. That is the least of a proplem people should be thinking about. The so called resident minister in Bo, Musa Tarawally need to go back to school to learn how to lead. If he want another war in that country, which he is trying create, people are ready. This time around, people are not going to sit down and allowed APC to do whatever they want to do in that country. WE never heard of all this type of things during the SLPP era. APC supporters are just plain lawless. If the president did not put his foot down and crack down on these lawless people, all his vissions for the country will go down to the drain.
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Mensa
To: All
Date Posted: 13:02:50 03/13/08 ()
Email Address: unikad5@yahoo.com
Entered From: at 82.99.234.217
Message:
David, you missed the point. Things normally start gradually. Give them a "defacing" yard, them take a "subversion" mile! Got it! Gotta stop them on their tracks.
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Moron
To: All
Date Posted: 10:47:16 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.86
Message:
If he want another war in that country, which he is trying create, people are ready. This time around, people are not going to sit down and allowed APC to do whatever they want to do in that country. WE never heard of all this type of things during the SLPP era. APC supporters are just plain lawless......David Bangura.
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You, my friend, are THE MORON OF THE YEAR!
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 10:57:38 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
I did not know David Bangura's was of Maron heritage..??
I would have thought it was Yele... not jamaica..??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon_Town,_Sierra_Leone
http://www.bccns.com/history_maroons.html
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Low Grade San San
To: All
Date Posted: 11:35:24 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-154-251-40.range86-154.btcentralplus.com at 86.154.251.40
Message:
I would have thought it was Yele... not jamaica..??
if this is David Babgura my yele brother, son of Dr Babgura of ashobi corner who now reside in Boston then you are correct. A decent and clever man like that will never speak like a moron. David if nar u please ignore my handle en sen me you contact details.
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Moron
To: All
Date Posted: 11:07:17 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.86
Message:
Candid, please tell me you are just messing with me!
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:11:27 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ns.nucleusns2.com at 12.44.12.126
Message:
Aye bo yousef....?
Just want to know man..
Are the Bangura's from Kingston man..?
Subject: Re: Fight For Bread And Butter, Not Presidential Portraits
From: Moron
To: All
Date Posted: 11:23:25 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 165.155.200.83
Message:
Bo lef for hambug. Bangura is a moron for that crase thing he said. Yu sef sef know say ar tok true. But maybe he is a Maroon from Kingston, Jamaica who goes to Maroon Church (founded 1821) on Siaka Stevens Street, every Sunday......Hmmmm!
Subject: Who is fooling who
From: MEDKAY
To: All
Date Posted: 04:23:10 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: 85.136.97.37.dyn.user.ono.com at 85.136.97.37
Message:
Please can someone give me the real cost to demolish city hall.Two sides story.awareness give an amount of 927 million while the newpeople gives an amount of 1 billion leones respectively.My question is,to have the real amount that will be spent for the demolition.
Subject: Re: Who is fooling who
From: Low Grade San San.
To: All
Date Posted: 11:11:46 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: host86-154-251-40.range86-154.btcentralplus.com at 86.154.251.40
Message:
this is just another apc wast at local level. Why pay such amount to demolish a dilapidated building, when the apc has a "task force" that is very good in vandalising opposition party buildings. All the apc Mayor has to do, is to request the service of these idle ragamuffins to get on with it. The whole building will be pelted into rubbles in seconds
Subject: Our recent history: The megalomania of Foday Sankoh.
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 21:10:00 03/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Foday Sankoh was clearly seduced by himself.
Subject: Re: Our recent history: The megalomania of Foday Sankoh.
From: Bai Bureh
To: All
Date Posted: 02:42:32 03/13/08 ()
Email Address: rastafari_ish@hotmail.com
Entered From: 194-237-247-130.customer.telia.com at 194.237.247.130
Message:
Reduce some Foday residual stress;enjoy some good south asian music!
Subject: The genesis of our misery
From: Fen Plaba!
To: All
Date Posted: 20:36:28 03/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ool-4577b27b.dyn.optonline.net at 69.119.178.123
Message:
Blast from the past.
Subject: Scholarships available for students of color
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
To: All
Date Posted: 20:10:39 03/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-ntc-ad04.proxy.aol.com at 207.200.116.198
Message:
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Subject: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 18:06:23 03/12/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-mtc-ah10.proxy.aol.com at 64.12.117.202
Message:
We want to thank all of you who have been cooperating with us to make a clean, tidy and serious forum. We are gradually getting there.
Right now, the only nuisance left is the character called GONGOLI who is either posting from a university campus in Albany. We are engaged in blocking his IP numbers but we want you to remain patient. He has many different computers to use now, but gradually all of them will be blocked .So far, we have succeeded in blocking him on the following IP numbers :
79.65.98.119
79.65.54.124
79.65.60.18
79.66.4.75
79.66.93.27
69.180.132.110
69.204.133.110
We carefully investigated to ensure that this is not an internet cafe since we don't want to block decent people who may be using the same cafe to access Cocorioko.We discovered that only GONGOLI has these IPs starting with 79 and 69. He is posting from a university library at Albany .
I know who the individual is but gradually he will stop bothering us when he exhausts all the computers in the library.
I did not tell his father not to be handsome or not to drive a Benz. He was the same person in another forum accusing me of supporting EBK because I wanted a job. He is mad because unintentionally I have proved to him that with the way God has blessed me, I don't need the things people want government jobs for because I have them already. I did not post those pictures intentionally. Many readers had complained to me that I don't post my pictures like other publishers .I therefore saw my birthday as a good time to oblidge their requests. People who know me are aware that I am humble and I do not care about materials things. But again, once in a while, it is good to show these bush boys who we are so they will know that we don't seek jobs like them when we write. If EBK appoints me and I take it, it is for patriotic purposes only .The government cannot pay me over what I am getting now.
Please be patient with us we clean the forum of vermins.
Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: Gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 12:06:45 03/13/08 ()
Email Address: Gonos@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-54-76.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.54.76
Message:
Fine Boy Kabs, I don't live in Albany. It just shows how stupid and inept you and your investigators are. Who cares about you driving a Benz on HP? When you finish paying for your Benz come and talk to me. I live and work in my beloved Sierra Leone. I am saving you the trouble of being harrassed, because if necessary, I will post a simple way to change IPs in an instant.
I think you should have saved your readers the nightmare of seeing that you are uglier than Sylvia who you label 'worwor'. Does a humble person say they are humble? I expect this mail to be removed, but by that time a couple of people would have read it. Don't worry, I have enough time, so any thing you write about me I will respond to fully. If you know who I am, why not come down and confront me. You liar. FAKE MAN OF GOD. FALSE PROPHET.
Bush boy? Have you forgotten where you come from?
Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: Reality
To: All
Date Posted: 14:05:00 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
My friend, Kabs Kanu is a handsome man, by the pictures I saw of him. Maybe, you are talking about another Kabs Kanu, are you ? One can see that you are envious of the man driving mercedez Benz. You Sierra Leoneans never change.
Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: Sia Tiyaama
To: All
Date Posted: 14:12:56 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: cache-dtc-ag14.proxy.aol.com at 205.188.117.142
Message:
Gongoli is definitely from Albany. He has been sick since the APC kicked the SLPP out of power. We hear that he has not been eating or socializing. Kabs is taking the heat because he was one of those who helped to kick SLPP out. And it started like a joke at Leonenet since 2000. Kabs began fighting Mr. Albany and others there. professor, you cannot afford mercedz benz ?
Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: alcole
To: All
Date Posted: 08:48:23 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: uslec-66-43-153-180.cust.uslec.net at 66.43.153.180
Message:
I think i could come up with away to block his screen name.
Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: political
To: All
Date Posted: 00:49:22 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
In the process you are blocking innocent people like me. What did I do to block me?
Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: Salone Police
To: All
Date Posted: 02:16:14 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: adsl-75-53-202-20.dsl.hstntx.sbcglobal.net at 75.53.202.20
Message:
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Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: political
To: All
Date Posted: 23:28:49 03/13/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: ip70-162-167-106.ph.ph.cox.net at 70.162.167.106
Message:
Actually, a few days ago when I wanted to reply to a posting, the system indicated I have been blocked from the forum. I am surprised when I tried it after couple of days, I was able to go thru hm
Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: Forum Police
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Date Posted: 09:08:43 03/14/08 ()
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That shows that you must have been banned by mistake. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
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Date Posted: 23:36:45 03/12/08 ()
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Rev, I don't think it is OK to refer to people as "vermins." There is nothing wrong if you set the right example.
Subject: Re: Call for patience : We are cleaning the forum
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 00:26:22 03/13/08 ()
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Humans can behave like vermins. Vermins are pests. Pests who pollute wherever they are; who spread diseases and plagues. The particular individual referred to is a real vermin. Not only does he rudely insult me for nothing, but he tries to disrupt activities on the forum. You have not read the obscenities he directs at me, which is why his posts are deleted. Such behavior qualifies him to be called a vermin. It is not an obscenity. It is another word for rats, roaches , and other pests. If people behave like vermins, they are vermins.
Subject: Dave the Hen
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 18:06:20 03/12/08 ()
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Dave the hen!
Dave came home from the pub late one Friday evening stinking drunk, as he
often did, and crept into bed beside his wife who was already asleep. He
gave her a peck on the cheek and fell asleep. When he awoke he found a
strange man standing at the end of his bed wearing a long flowing white
Robe.
'Who the hell are you?' demanded Dave, 'and what are you doing in my
bedroom?'
The mysterious man answered 'This isn't your bedroom and I'm St Peter.'
Dave was stunned 'You mean I'm dead!?!! That can't be,I have so much to
live for, I haven't said goodbye to my family. . ..you've got to send me back straight away.'
St Peter replied 'Yes, you can be reincarnated but there is a catch. We
can
only send you back as a dog or a hen.'
Dave was devastated, but knowing there was a farm not far from his house,
he asked to be sent back as a hen. A flash of light later he was covered
in
feathers and clucking around pecking the ground.
'This ain't so bad' he thought until he felt this strange feeling welling
up inside him.
The farmyard rooster strolled over and said 'So you're the new hen, how
are
you enjoying your first day here?'
'It's not so bad' replies Dave, 'but I have this strange feeling inside
like I'm about to explode.'
'You're ovulating' explained the rooster, 'don't tell me you've never laid
an egg before?'
'Never!' replies Dave.
'Well just relax and let it happen'
So he did and after a few uncomfortable seconds later,an egg pops out from
under his tail. An immense feeling of relief swept over him and his
emotions got the better of him as he experienced motherhood for the first
time. When he laid his second egg, the feeling of happiness was
overwhelming and he knew that being reincarnated as a hen was the best
thing that ever happened to him . . . Ever!!!
The joy kept coming and as he was just about to lay his third egg he felt
an enormous smack on the back of his head and heard his wife shouting...
'Dave, wake up you drunken ba*t#rd, you've sh^t the bed!'.
Subject: The Death of Common Sense
From: M. Alieu Iscandari Esq
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Date Posted: 17:49:43 03/12/08 ()
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London Times Obituary of the late Mr. Common Sense 'Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Elastoplast to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, It's Not My Fault, and I'm A Victim, and hard core members of the SLPP party in sierra leone. Other relatives include the proprietors of the newpeople news paper, The un-awareness times news paper, Solo De Fomba, John Benjamin Hirsch, John Karimu and members of the Kailahun Court Barray, and those who passed out machetes to slpp supporters during the last elections.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
Subject: Worwor
From: Gongoli
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Date Posted: 16:25:28 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: Gonos@yahoo.com
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I told you, you do not have the expertise or know-how to ban me. I can post under another name, but i want to expose your shortcomings. come and meet me somewhere in Freetown with your temne thugs.
WORWOR KABS.....the sooner you take your picture down.....Feber babu, kabs feber babu
Subject: Re: Worwor
From: gongoli
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Date Posted: 16:26:31 03/12/08 ()
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Dont bother banning this IP as I am changing it anyway.........FALSE PROPHET
Subject: President Koroma opens the door to persecution of press
From: The Nationalist
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Date Posted: 14:30:27 03/12/08 ()
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By begging the ugly duckling Sylvia and not giving her what she deserved, President Koroma opened the door to the persecution of journalists by the same ugly Sylvia. Have you all noticed that since the President and his wife begged Sylvia, she has become very mouthy and haughty and she is now threatening journalists left and right. This is getting very irritating. READ Sylvia's latest bragging and threats :
Philip Neville’s Lawyers Dodged Yesterday’s Cross-Examination in Serious Libel Suit in Sierra Leone
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The ongoing indictment for Criminal Libel brought against the President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, Philip Neville, by the Publisher of the Awareness Times, Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden was yesterday held at Magistrate Kamanda’s Court No. 2 at the Law Courts in Freetown with Neville’s Lawyer dodging the Court and not attending.
It will be recalled that the last time the matter came up on Thursday March 6th 2008, Dr. Blyden had finished her lengthy testimony which she had commenced in December 2007. Throughout Dr. Blyden’s testimony, Lawyer Jenkins Johnston who is defending Philip Neville and second accused Augustine Beecher, made impatient comments and gestures that he wanted to start cross-examination of Sylvia Blyden.
Another of Jenkins Johnston’s clients, Richie Olu Gordon, even went to the extent of publishing last December that Blyden had a "tough case". Blyden remained unfazed throughout her testimony even as Jenkins Johnston objected numerous times to sections of her testimony especially with respect to a recorded threatening telephone conversation between Blyden and Neville for which the police had arrested Philip Neville.
Now that Blyden finished her testimony and was to be cross-examined on March 6th 2008, Jenkins Johnston only asked her a few offbeat questions and then requested for an adjourned date which was granted to be yesterday March 11th 2008.
Blyden had publicly thrown a challenge calling on all those who had spent years maliciously making false assertions against her especially with respect to her role in the civil war years, to come to the aid of Neville’s lawyer who should now cross examine her in the witness box.
"I consider myself to be a patriot of the highest order which is why I am going to subject myself to their cross examination and allow the public to judge the unfolding facts," Blyden had said.
However, to the chagrin of many who had gathered at the Court yesterday, Lawyer Jenkins Johnston did not show up in Court. This caused the lawyer for Dr. Sylvia Blyden, Easmon Ngakui Esq. to furiously deride Jenkins Johnston’s absence and accuse him of "dodging" the cross examination.
Before this time in early February this year, Lawyer Jenkins Johnston had again requested for a long adjournment citing that his client would be at a SLAJ General Meeting slated for February 25th to 2nd March. Although the long adjournment was granted, it was later proved to be untrue that such a SLAJ Meeting was held.
"There has been numerous delaying tactics in this matter on the side of the Defence. On the part of the Prosecution, we are ready to proceed speedily with this matter. My client is determined to clear her name in Court and yet the Defence Lawyer is making delaying tactics." Lawyer Ngakui angrily expressed yesterday adding, "My Lord if they are going to be dodging, then it is only right that you immediately commit this matter to the High Court for speedy trial."
Questions posed by the Magistrate to Philip Neville as to when his lawyer would be next available to proceed with the cross examination could not be answered as Neville, the SLAJ President who was in the dock, responded that he did not know.
Magistrate Kamanda has therefore adjourned to a relatively long date of March 19th 2008 when it is hoped both Philip Neville and his lawyer, Jenkins Johnston will be in Court to proceed with the cross examination of Sylvia Blyden.
Philip Neville is facing a very serious eight count charge for criminally libeling Dr. Sylvia Blyden in a series of publications dated between April 2006 and January 2007. There are reports of plans afoot to also bring him in for "deliberate forgery with the intent to mislead the public".
There are also plans by Sylvia Blyden to bring to book under the criminal laws of the land, a few other local notorious journalists. However, Blyden wishes to first dispense with Neville’s own criminal matter.
"When I was young, my great-grandmother used to advise me that ‘One thing at a time and that done well’. Let me finish with Neville and then I will exercise my right to deal with those other menaces," Sylvia Blyden confidently promised yesterday adding in the local Creole parlance, "take tem kill ant; you go see him gut". [TRANSLATED TO MEAN: If you patiently dissect an ant, you will get to see its entrails]
Subject: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Fufu en sawasawa
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Date Posted: 14:20:24 03/12/08 ()
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The strategy of the mafia SLPP party of turning Sierra Leone into a state of anarchy and chaos grinds on inexorably. After defacing the president's portrait in Bo a few weeks ago, thereby inciting a backlash against them by APC supporters, the Nankashee party is at it again, this time painting the Prez's portrait orange. Of course the bloody cowards are already screaming their innocence.
In a way, I blame President Koroma for encouraging this B.S to continue. By apologising to that stupid Sylvia Blabber Mouth after she defecated on the President's pictutes, he opened himself up to ridicule by the SLPP antidemocrats. It is open season on the presidency and the APC by people who have never practised democracy in their political history.
Now all the SLPP guns are blazing for the president's head. The Awareness Times and The New People ass wipes are on overkill mode as they cook up stories and sedition against the president. The SLPP does not just want to kick EBK out of office; they want to destroy him and every APC supporter they think is supporting him (see the propagandist onslaught on Kabs Kanu).
President Koroma, it's time to fight fire with fire, lies with truth. You gotta punch back and defend democracy against the democracy-allergic termites! You gotta show us, your supporters, that you have balls of steel. And start firing lethargic ministers!
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 14:36:42 03/12/08 ()
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The De-humanizing continues..
In Rwanda.. it was lets go out and kill those cockroaches.. In salone.. the code word it seems is termites.. ??
What is so undemocratic about the SLPP fighting hard to oust the APC and its president..??
What is soooooooo wrong with SLPP leaning papers calling and trying to 3 foot the APC and its president..
Where did you garner this its the APC way or we are goign to send highway.. ??
Call me stupid, but i can't for the life of me see this sedition and libel or anti salone rhetoric been preached by RED leaners against the GREENIES..
Most of all i see is idle prank.. and juvenile supporters taking the piss at the way the other party overeacts..abeit the APC has OVER OVER OVER over reacted....
If it is the same kind of hot blood that boils in the veins of those in salone as your post is of venom.. then i can candidly say.. its understandable.. You are spitting poison on paper.. they are face to face.. and there is a lot of stones and kerosene to go around..and in that hot weather.. i can see fires and looting happening in a eye bat..
The NEW PEOPLE & Awareness times are doing what they where set up to do by those who set it up..
Aggravate the APC.. be opposed, do not give credit.
claim assasinations, claim coups, claim rice scandals and let the APC defend itself.. Well thats how our demogracy and our courst of public opinion works..
Tough luck mister..
I am not saying its right.. just that well
WE HAVE SEEN THOSE NEWSPAPER TACTICS before.. copied verbatim..
In conclusion and with the talk of termites fresh.. why are we making a mountain out of a termite hill..??
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Mensa
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Date Posted: 03:23:11 03/13/08 ()
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I really enjoyed reading Candid-O's piece, particularly the concluding part that started with the line "The NEW PEOPLE & Awareness times are doing what they where set up to do by those who set it up......." That's an unavoidably realistic way of looking at it! It brings a refreshing analytic opinion different from the usual bashing of the SLPP spin doctors. What I believe is the genuine message that Candid-O is trying to put across is that, the propaganda machine of the SLPP is on a mission to unsettle, and the more the "over-reaction?" from the APC folks, the more the evidence that their[SLPP] plans are succeeding. Call it the bitter truth, but I love it! Everybody has a right to his or her own opinion, and this time around, I think Candid-O has got a salient point, ..... it's just part of the grand political game of party politics.
However, I also believe that the ruling party has it's own obligation to defend itself in the propaganda warfare. Mostly, it's own part is bit more difficult, because, as the ruling party, the security apparatus is at its disposal, and any deployment of such forces could be misconstrued. Therefore, to fully engage a vibrant and aggressive propaganda machine that has the potential to match-up with that of the SLPP is a responsibility that cannot be denied. But then, to my utter surprise, Candid-O is calling that "over-reaction"! I mean, is the APC's reaction which has neither been executed by the deployment of the military personnel or the police an "over-reaction"? Should the ruling party continue to carve in, stay numb, and watch the SLPP flood the website with derogatory articles? Ayyy Bo O'langba! If that's the case, then the propaganda will soon transform itself to 'subversion' because, according to Candid-O's candid opinion, the government should remain put, no action [otherwise it's 'over-reaction' - I mean there's nothing between the two - either you don't react or you over-react]!
Now, there's a potentially dangerous situation that will develop if we play according to the Candid-O theorem! The government doing nothing might lead to a snap reaction that could go well beyond the "over-reaction" that he considers to be inappropriate right now. Where the New Government remains irresponsive to almost all the negative SLPP-sponsored campaign, then it means they are busy gathering enough evidence. When they do strike, they'll strike with ferocity and remain unrepentant. The fury could boil over to other areas because the indisputable evidence will be there ..... and the long silence/patience will justify the bleeding repercussions!
But as of now, I don't think the statement by Candid-O: "Most of all I see is idle prank.. and juvenile supporters taking the piss at the way the other party over-reacts..abeit the APC has OVER OVER OVER over reacted": is fair or justified since it's a natural CYBER reaction IN WRITING from APC sympathizers in response to persistent SLPP provocation . Any attempt by APC sympathizers to check SLPP propaganda, be it in cyber or in Newspapers, is well within the confines or counter moves of the political game that my good friend made reference to in his concluding statements ..... and I still respect that part of his analysis ..... regardless
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 07:41:30 03/13/08 ()
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Where i think you finally grasp the Candido theorem is here...
------is fair or justified since it's a natural CYBER reaction IN WRITING from APC sympathizers in response to persistent SLPP provocation . Any attempt by APC sympathizers to check SLPP propaganda, be it in cyber or in Newspapers, is well within the confines or counter moves of the political game that my good friend made reference to in his concluding statements-----
Thats the only reaction needed or warranted right now.
No looting, no burning of party headquarters, no gang rape, no cry about tribalism.. no talk of subversion..
No one is training a parellel army in the Gola.. NO ONE..
This is the new battleground..
To be honest.. since the SLPP saw and we all witnessed and the proprietor claimed how successful cocorioko & neville and standard times and peeps and a host others where in helping oust the SLPP... WHY WOULD THEY NOT TRY THE SAME???? They would be insane not to try..
And Mensa, as to your statement above..
---since it's a natural CYBER reaction IN WRITING from APC sympathizers in response to persistent SLPP---
Flip the coin a bit and realise that on the flip side.. thats all the other side is doing..
Reacting to APC Cyber props.....
---- mean, is the APC's reaction which has neither been executed by the deployment of the military personnel or the police an "over-reaction"---
As to this above.. why would that be neccesary??
We are not living in a police of junta state.. ?
Until the constitution is suspended.. its either we go by its rules and grant ALLLLLLLLLLLL citizens there rights of the paper the constitution is written on is just unless brade en aborbor wrapper..
Its either, you, Ernest, the APC, Our country respects the constitution and rule of law or we dont..
And we if are willing to have the government take the laws into its own hands we should not be suprised of the rebirth of foday sankorism.. Citizens will react to defend themselves against percieves or real tyranny..
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 17:39:12 03/12/08 ()
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I've observed you closely on this forum, and discovered that you have a very low sense of humour. You like to pretend to be objective and think that you stand for a purpose but its the complete reverse. But never mind, I've always warned the SLPP supporters that their provocation of violence, unpatriotic ways of opposing will work against them. What happened in Bo should serve as a strong reminder of what the SLPP dilema will lead to, the first time they successfully provoked the APC youths and violence broke out, they tried again this time but lets waite and see what's going to happen my guess is the APC youths realised the SLPP are waging a psychological war against not only the APC but the entire country. They're prepared to impede and frustrate any form of development for Sierra Leone because the APC stands to take the credit for being the only party that can uplift Sierra Leone. The SLPP realised this and thought we're in a serious dilema, one that could lead us to a long spell in opposition so the best we can do now is distract them from their determination to serious strides.
The Government should ignore this unpatriotic moves by their opponents and concentrate on uplifting our country surely the electorates will reward you. Let the SLPP deviate from giving objective opposition and continue to dig their own grave.
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 21:21:21 03/12/08 ()
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This does not have to be about me...
All i am trying to says is, looking for the other side of the argument...
This same argument.. you bring forth..it does not hold water...
Where do you all get this rabid tongue..
Where in all this past weeks.. hs the SLPP portrayed anything close to deserving a statement like yours??
----"their provocation of violence, unpatriotic ways of opposing"----
If anything and if we can go by news coming out of salone recently...i think it is the APC supporters provoking the SLPP and taking unpatriotic stancs...
---------FACT
Just after the election.. APC supporters looted and almost burn the SLPP HQ...
--------FACT
Defacing of Ernest Statue a petty misdemeanor at bo clock tower, APC resident minister and APC administered police and hooligans raided the SLPP Bo HQ. Arrested the mayor..
--------FACT
SLPP ex-ministers unconstitutionally kept under house arrest for the past 6 months..A clear breach on thier rights as granted by a constitution ratified by APC.
--------FACT
Local tabloid printed Ernest's picture upside down and one with horns.. satire.. caricature.. well within international norms and well tested and tried uses of images to make a satirical point..she is invited to spend a night at CID.. She, well informed as she is, demanded her rights.. and walked if it was not going to be granted by incompetent keepers of our justice..
WHERE IS THIS MUDSLINGING OF SLPP sabotage i am hearing from all quarters...????
Where is this machevilian plot to undermine the APC..
If someone can please show me.. maybe i will just change my white underwear for a red shimi..
All i see so far is the SLPP been bullied into a silent corner where they cannot even raise a voice or a finger to check APC excesses and if you think thats good for salone then you must be Jengo Steven cause pop shek taught you the one party doctrine too well
My gripe is this excuse for doing nothing in 6 months is getting too deafening...i think the present government is scapegoating and as a peaceful citizen of salone...wanting a better future for my motherland, I PROTEST..
APC, if you are not up to the JOB we elected you for..
Maybe its time to give PMDC a chance to give us some of that positive change they sold us.
We elected APC on a platform of change..and dang if anything changed..
Give me a break guys, if you are not objective enough, dont call me arrogant.. just take off your red tinted googles and see the country retrogressing politically and constitutionally....
This was not our hopes.. this was not our dreams of a better future without the green yoke..
What the hell wrong with you people???
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Fufu en sawasawa
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Date Posted: 19:28:37 03/13/08 ()
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If only you had protested as loudly and grievously when SLPP was ruining the country for eleven lousy years, while they were screwing every dollar in skirt like a hot-blooded Lothario; when they were locking up journalists left right front and center; when good money was disappearing like salt in a pot of hot Okro soup, in fictitious schemes and shell companies; when dilapidation multiplied and rehabilitation became cynical code words for rob-till-you-drop-cronyism....
But Woyang! The sanctimonious critics today were doing the Monkey-Three back in the SLPP day: See no evil, hear no evil, say no evil. You need to take a time travel back Mr. Candid!
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Fufu en sawasawa
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Date Posted: 15:11:38 03/12/08 ()
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The people who are trying to Rwandize the situation are SLPP batoliners like you who are spreading rumor over sedition about Notthernization, ethnic marginalization, outright demonization of the other party and in general doing everything your party can to roil the party and destroy the people's mandate. I am calling on the president to stop turning the cheek and to stop taking it on the chin from partisans who have no respect for democracy. The tactics of the SLPP newspapers are not an innocuous exercise of free speech as you so glibly put it. It is rather a calculated strategem to turn the country upside down and flood it eith anarchy. You gotta understand Bra that we all can play the politics of hard knocks you guys. This talk of a Rwandan-like genocide is just a red herring and is unworthy of you.
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 15:32:57 03/12/08 ()
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Not calling it such yet, just saying thats how its started..
Hutu cockkroaching the tutsi.. one a day to day basis.. on a palava to palava basis..
Eventually it stuck.. eventually.. eveyone knew them as cockroaches and it was easier to kill and stamp on..
And i aint no batoliner.. just saying i dont see this FIRE you are yelling in the movie theater..
Its like wishful thinking.. if you yell fire enough.. i think something gots to give someone might just start believing you..
I am not defending the NEWSpapers.. i am just saying.. i have seen all this before.. and back then it was ok..
If you can point to 1 UNO thing that can be clasified as sedition from a apoliical bi partisan standpoint.. point it out..
I am just saying... i dont see it..
The same bash you are bashing SLPP, is what they are doign right back.. bashing you and your party right back..
Should their be nepalm sorties for that is my question...?
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Fufu en sawasawa
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Date Posted: 19:21:29 03/12/08 ()
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I call the irresponsible practice of democracy by the SLPP intelligentsia, 'termiting' because it truly entails bombing the whole country into smithereens until the country cries Uncle! Please don't monsterize my TERMITE into a COCKROACH to be rubbed out under a Hutu boot. SLPP may think that they are scoring points against APC with their cheap propaganda. Sad truth is that they are childishly demonstrating an immature understanding of democracy. The theater of the absurd reached a 'belleh-laffing' climax when SLPP MPs boycotted an important deliberation on the budget to go and protest for that paragon of unsoiled journalistic virtue, the incomparable Sylvia Blyden. Such self-serving hypocrites!
SLPP can rehabilitate themselves by presenting ideas for progress instead of monkeying around with a brew of constant sabotage.
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 21:38:09 03/12/08 ()
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It was a simile.. i was just saying..
careful how you label.
Labelling SLPP or her supporters termitically was IN MY VIEW a precursor to making them look less human..
Its like this new FAD of demonizing Sylvia Blyden..
It is sad that we castigate and try to de-fang, and get her to subdue to our way or the NEW national agenda.. and feel no rue..cause we use animal names like baboon and gongoli etc..thinking they are not mean and bad words.. well they are..
We shoudl be able to take as much as i see us dishing out here..
I am just calling for calm.. and level headedness..
Which seem lacking recently..
I take this all in good spirit.. cause this is what i expect opposing sides to do.. OPPOSE..
We need to watch our words, and our approach to this political beast.. if not, it is quick to overtake..
If at all i misconstrued your words or intentions..
Sorry bra.. i hope no offence..if any..
I heartedly ask for your forgiveness..
Its all in a days of salone work..mine is all about where my nabul was planted.. nothing more.
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Fufu en sawasawa
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Date Posted: 04:48:46 03/13/08 ()
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I take no offense sir, in the give and take of politics. I do understand that words can be lethal as we mobilize them to stake positions and characterize opponents. But please understand that this has not just been the province of the APC. The SLPP have not been innocents abroad in this department and Sylvia Blyden is no innocent suckler. She is a 'belleh-boxer' extraordinaire. Believe me, the little slings we APC throw at her are puny compared to the big guns she and the SLPP media deploy on behalf of their party. Politics is a muddy business and at times the realists have to just shut their eyes, suck in their breath and jump in the mud.
I however thank you for your humorous and keen take on politics and I hope we will continue to tango every so often without malice. My hat to you Mr, Candid!
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 07:56:01 03/13/08 ()
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----The SLPP have not been innocents abroad in this department and Sylvia Blyden is no innocent suckler. She is a 'belleh-boxer' extraordinaire. Believe me, the little slings we APC throw at her are puny compared to the big guns she and the SLPP media deploy on behalf of their party.----
This is where i take exception..
I dont see it..
So far.. not one... not a single one article posted on Awareness times or new people had been untrue..
I am not talking about Pouweis opinions.. or the editorials..
But news items..
APC and its tentacular apendages has not DEBUNKED one single story..
They may have written a lame counter.. (ala shekito the compressed pressman).. or issued lameass and illegal press statement threatening citizens from statehouse.. thats it..
If there is any one of these stories..
Shirley Mbujama embarassed.
Berewa Embarassed at lungi.
Minister under house arrest.
Bo youths let by resident minister loot and kidnapped the mayor.
World band raised an eyebrow to Ernests electrification program.
Tonkolili paromount chied railroaded out of town..
Illegal APC task force harrassing and causing bodily harm...
If any of those are wrong.. or propaganda.. let me know..
If it should not have been reported because APC is a teething governement let me know.
If ones reported it might be construed as subversion let me know so i can change concepts..
Thats all i ask.. And you can substitute the Me and I for We.. i bet a lot more people are asking these questions cause if SLPP is subserving us as a NATION.. that its a NATIONAL ISSUE.
And yeah.. bra.. My hat to you to..
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Eddie Grant
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Date Posted: 14:21:41 03/13/08 ()
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...So far.. not one... not a single one article posted on Awareness times or new people had been untrue..
I am not talking about Pouweis opinions.. or the editorials..
But news items..
APC and its tentacular apendages has not DEBUNKED one single story..
..
My friend, this is just one proof that your support for news stories is based on extreme excitement, you're obviously not interested to know whether these stories have any credibility or not as long as they're aimed at discrediting the ruling APC.
The one thing you could do, if what you claimed to about yourself is true, is to try and understand how majority of Sierra Leoneans think about themselves and political parties. If you ask them, what majority will tell is that they're only interested in the party that is capable of lifting the country from the present state to a better one.
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Bat Man
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Date Posted: 10:36:14 03/13/08 ()
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C'mon Candid Opinion, all of those stories you just dug out of the SLPP sinkhole are patently false. The little game that Sylvia and Sheku Kallon play is to take a nugget of truth, inflame it in a hyperbole of lies and innuendo and serve it as red-hot mischief.
Bra, even a blind bat can see that.
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Candid Opinion
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Date Posted: 10:46:48 03/13/08 ()
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I would think thats what all newspapers do..and AW and NP are not unique in this game of innuendo's, half truths and wicked sensationalisation..
Worldwide.. the tactics is always to put the other party on the defensive.. It is a tried and tested newpaper method of sifting the charf.. from the true story..
That been said.. If any of these are false.. Or have not been reported.. by some other papers or has been debunked.. i am all ears..
Shirley Mbujama embarassed.
Berewa Embarassed at lungi.
Minister under house arrest.
Bo youths let by resident minister loot and kidnapped the mayor.
World bank raised an eyebrow to Ernests electrification program.
Tonkolili paromount chief railroaded out of town..
Illegal APC task force harrassing and causing bodily harm...
I agree they might have been sensationalized.. but false and tantamount to subversion or undermining....???
I dont get it..
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Bat Man
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Date Posted: 11:31:21 03/13/08 ()
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If any of these stoties can be independently sourced from without the usual SLPP camp of gloom, please show me. As someone said, SLPP media propagandists (Ahem, I mean newspapers) are like toilets: full of crap! Of course, the SLPP are free to keep on concocting these miasmic stories. They should just spare the rest of us the toilet stink.
And by the way, as the SLPP continues playing pranks on themselves, the people are watching, seeing those who work for the common good and those who are just lazing away, blowing hot air and scheming for the next elactions.
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 11:48:34 03/13/08 ()
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Too hard and time consuming to go into all the archieves..
But the Bo incident was reportied by peeps and awoko..
2 independent (well at least not SLPP leaning).
The shekito incident or using statehouse media for callous shenanigans was reported by a host of salone papers including standard times and cocorioko..
In fact i copied from COCORIOKO to and pasted here and thats how the others picked it up.
The gbugama incident is known cause i am friends with the family..
SLPP ministers under unconstitutional house arrest is a well known fact.. and members of my extended family and people i know cant travel out of the country except they go omojuba to sexy eyes sam..
So almost all i can verify and/or can vouch that i have read in other news outlet..
Worldbank story was on BBC..
Subject: Re: The SLPP sabotage continues
From: Batman
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Date Posted: 16:55:14 03/13/08 ()
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"SLPP ministers under unconstitutional house arrest is a well known fact"... Candid Opinion.
"A scrawl on a newspaper is not the golden truth always".... Anonymous wise man.
Candid Opinion, kindly tell us the name of any SLPP minister who is under house arrest in Sierra Leone right now. PLEASE!
By the way, how is the wonderful SLPP Minister of Education, Wurie, doing in merry old England? I hear that he and his family are having a swell time with the country's millions that he pilfered before quickly splitting after the elections. Anyways give us the name of the house-arrested ministers...or is this just another flaming canard from the SLPP 'scorched-earth tactics' laboratory?
Subject: Quiz. Who said those words?
From: Memory lane
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Date Posted: 09:18:09 03/12/08 ()
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Hence, we have good reasons to let them all-the Mandelas-rot in prison, and I think we should be commended for having kept them alive in spite of what we have at hand with which to finish them off. I wish to announce a number of new strategies that should be put to use to destroy this Black bug. We should now make use of the chemical weapon. Priority number one, we should not by all means allow any more increases of the Black population lest we be choked very soon. I have exciting news that our scientists have come with an efficient stuff. I am sending out more researchers to the field to identify as many venues as possible where the chemical weapons could be employed to combat any further population increases. The hospital is a very strategic opening, for example and should be fully utilized. The food supply channel should be used. We have eveloped excellent slow killing poisons and fertility destroyers. Our only fear is in case such stuff came in! ! to their hands as they are bound to start using it against us if you care to think of the many Blacks working for us in our homes.
However, we are doing the best we can to make sure that the stuff remains strictly in our hands. Secondly, most Blacks are vulnerable to money inducements. I have set aside a special fund to exploit this venue. The old trick of divide and rule is still very valid today. Our experts should work day and night to set the Black man against his fellowman. His inferior sense of morals can be exploited beautifully. And here is a creature that lacks foresight. There is a need for us to combat him in long term projections that he cannot suspect. The average Black does not plan his life beyond a year: that stance, for example,should be exploited. My special department is already working round the clock to come out with a long-term operation blueprint. I am also sending a special request to all Afrikaner mothers to double their birth rate. It may be necessary too to set up a population boom industry by putting up centres where we employ and support fully White young men and women to produce children for the nation. We are also investigating the merit of uterus rentals as a possible means of speeding up the growth of our population through surrogate mothers.
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Date Posted: 08:47:27 03/12/08 ()
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Subject: Food of thought
From: Patricia Motayo
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Date Posted: 08:42:54 03/12/08 ()
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's,60's and 70's !!
First,we survived being born to mothers who smoked
and/or drank while they
carried us.They took aspirin, ate blue cheese
dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get
tested for diabetes.Then after that trauma, our baby
cots were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors
or cabinets and when we rode
our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the
risks we took hitchhiking .
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts
or air bags.
Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great
fun.
We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a
bottle.We shared one soft drink with four friends,
from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank
pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight
because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day,
as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were
O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of
scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After
running into the
bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no
video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video
tape movies, no surround sound,no cell phones, no text
messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or
Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we
went outside and found
them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth
and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and
the worms did not live in us forever.
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and
although we were told it would happen, we did not poke
out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and
knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled
for them!
Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the
team. Those who didn't had to learn
to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the
law was unheard of.They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best
risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50years have been an explosion of innovation
and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility,
and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Subject: Re: Food of thought
From: Patricia Motayo
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Date Posted: 08:49:23 03/12/08 ()
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Sorry the subject should have been written as "FOOD FOR THOUGHT"
Subject: Re: Food of thought
From: Cool vibes
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Date Posted: 11:10:05 03/12/08 ()
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No need to apologise. I very much enjoyed your piece. Thanx.
Subject: Mr. President, What About The Transition Report, ..
From: Plein Tok
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Date Posted: 08:09:58 03/12/08 ()
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Mr. President, What About The Transition Report, TheLe 9.6 Billion Permit-Gate and The....“The People Want to Know”.
Posted by on Mar 9, 2008, 16:29
Since the announcement of the victory results of the APC and the crumbling state of the SLPP, it’s almost getting to eight months with several heart breaking news pounding the minds of citizens, which has to do with financial impropriety, fraud and you name it hitting the public domain every passing moments, while the prices of essential goods are steadily chasing the sky; as if the sky is their limit.
The interpretation is “TIMES ARE HARD” which in the economic sense would mean too much money chasing few goods and services, putting stress on the purchasing power of the consumers. The consumers are struggling to catch up with the economic trend or market situation. This writer is deliberately refusing to say that we are in a state of inflation, whereby the market situation is negatively affecting the income and expenditure pattern of the consumers. An economic state that is hostile to the purchasers of goods and services.
Sierra Leoneans are experiencing a market situation that is perhaps devoid of economic concept and have attributed their plights to various circumstances that are putting them in a state of economic dilemma. The situation is gradually leading to a state of disillusionment, especially for the average Sierra Leonean who cannot predict whether or not he/she will be able to put food on the table the next day for his/her family.
While all these heart breaking and economic constraints that are effecting some sector of the middle and down-trodden, those at the top are making use of political connections to increase the woos on the people. Several months back, there was the issue of a transition report which was collated by a group of Sierra Leoneans appointed by the newly elected president, Ernest Bai Koroma. The task of the group was not only to investigate but to collate relevant information about the activities of officials of the past government, how they had functioned, performed in the interest of the state. It was a welcome and laudable initiative by the APC government in political governance again after spending time in the wilderness.
The report was presented to the President who issued out the mandate. What is unique in the entire exercise was the fact that it gives a semblance of accountability as government officials had the opportunity of transferring not only political power, but report about performances. Since the handing over of the document to this day nothing has been heard about who was guilty of financial misappropriation or embezzlement of state funds, instead the talk around town is that political power is not being evenly distributed and that large chunk of it has been diverted to the northern part of the country where the leader of the APC party and President of Sierra Leone hails from. This talk has successfully overshadowed relevant issues relating to accountability and management of the state as every Jack and Jill want to become Ministers, Board Chairman or Managing Director forgetting what had transpired in the past that left the state of Sierra Leone in a terrible economic mess.
The question that the suffering masses are asking the President is what is happening to the transition report. Is it still kept in the closets of those who are suppose to implement it or make its contents known to the people? Whether it is an act of conspiracy or not, remains absurd especially to those who were expecting actions to have been taken against the perpetrators.
As if the transition report to the APC party that has been shouting transparency and zero tolerance against corruption is not important, the SLPP are now using the silence of the APC over relevant state matters to their advantage, telling the electorate that they left behind substantial amount of money and reserves to run the state which the current government is misappropriating. Gradually they are getting sympathizers into their fold and with the local council elections around the corner; substantial political dividend may be realized if the transition report continues to stay in the closet at state house.
That is just one issue that the APC is romancing with, treating it like a baby boomer without any recognition of the fact that politically it may not augur well for them in due course.
Another issue that has not been treated seriously by the APC government is that of the “Permit-gate” and the Le9.6 Billion embezzled by a group of money- hungry individuals driving in tinted air-conditioned vehicles. In a period of three months, it was discovered that the group together with some importers siphoned this colossal sum of money.
Unfortunately, Lawyer Frank Kargbo who was put in charge to investigate the fraud has come up with no news or report for the interest of Sierra Leoneans. Whether they have been made to refund the money or suffer the consequences of their actions is yet unknown to those who have the right to know.
One would not be surprised to learn that other members of the public have chopped huge sums of money belonging to the state without any punitive action from the government. Why are some people above the law and others below it is not clear. Take for instance, NATCOM, just one individual who claims to be a philanthropist has chopped over Le140 Million and he is walking the streets of Freetown as a free man. Another is Mr. K. Turay who, according to the documentary evidence was using his position as member of the SALPOST Board to dupe the establishment. Take another example, Philip Lukulay, who could not give proper account of all the flags of convenience distributed to foreign ships overseas, the rubber plantation at the Moyamba district and a lot more. Mr. President, the people of this nation voted you for a change, not only in behavioral pattern but their economic status.
Subject: Mayors Condemn Arrest of Bo Mayor in Sierra Leone
From: By Bintu A Sesay
To: All
Date Posted: 08:00:04 03/12/08 ()
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Mar 11, 2008, 17:35
Local Councils Association of Sierra Leone has resolved at its meeting in Bo City Council on 1st March 2008 to make the following statement for the benefit of the Civil Society and the general public.
The Association views with dismay and disappointment the brutal and uncivilized treatment meted out on Wednesday 27th February 2008 to the Mayor of Bo City, Dr. Wusu Sannoh who is also the President of the Local Councils Association of Sierra Leone firstly by a rowdy group of wild youths at the apparent behest of the Resident Minister and Secondly, by the police purportedly affording the Mayor ‘protective custody’ by insisting on inviting him to the police station and questioning and keeping him there against his will indefinitely.
According to the Association, the So-called protective custody was an unlawful and irresponsible act by the police personnel involved. Furthermore, the position of the Mayor as head of Council, which is the highest local political authority in its area, was seriously compromised.
The incident grew out of the disregard of those involved about the duties and responsibilities of Council with respect to the protection and decoration of all structures around the Clock Tower and other public places. Councils are entitled to protection by the police in this and other similar matters. The fact that police could even interrogate the Mayor based on a rumour or suspicions is unacceptable.
According to the release, the Association is satisfied that the Mayor and the Council would not in any way deface the picture of His Excellency the President.
The Association therefore, totally condemns this uncivilized and disrespectful manner of handing an affair which should have been thoroughly and professionally investigated and the culprits brought to book.
The release concludes that the Local Councils Association of Sierra Leone solidly supports the Mayor in all steps he has taken, and further applauds his comportment and leadership so far.
Subject: Pertinent matters about Cocorioko and the forum
From: KABS KANU
To: All
Date Posted: 05:41:59 03/12/08 ()
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The Cocorioko Forum was set up to encourage Sierra Leoneans and lovers of Sierra Leone to debate on matters of supreme national interest to our nation and our world. This purpose seems to be under abuse by those who think they have the testicular fortitude to dictate how we run our newspaper and forum.
Well, let this be said. We are not going to allow anybody to dictate to us. Nobody goes to the NEW PEOPLE or AWARENESS TIMES to dictate to them what they write or how they run their forums.
We are suffering from this because we have been too lenient with people on this forum. Lots of concerned people have advised me and the moderator many times to make this a controlled forum but because we love freedom we have not done so. It is important to note that even the great LEONENET started as an open forum like this but according to the ADMINISTRATOR, Mr. Claude Meama-Kajue, Sierra Leoneans were misbehaving and abusing the forum and thus he had no alternative but to make it a controlled forum--and today, he is reaping the rich dividends.
We have made this forum open because we thought Sierra Leoneans would act responsibly and with maturity. This however is not being done. And to add insult to injury, people want to reward us for all the money we are spending to give them a newspaper and forum by maligning us on our own forum.
Let me say this clear and loud: It will not happen. Nobody will use our sweat to tarnish our names. In this regard, the COCORIOKO FORUM is going to start showing taking very strong actions against those allergic to rules,as our moderator once said.
Freedom of speech is not absolute. It goes with certain responsibilities. If we think we can use our freedom to show our legendary ungrateful and unserious spirit by maligning the owners of this forum, let me say it again : IT WILL NOT HAPPEN . As a first step, effective immediately, IPs will now be shown as a first step towards making this a controlled forum. Either that or we will think about closing down the forum because people are not using it for the purpose for which it was set up.
Go to the AWARENESS TIMES FORUM .Show me anywhere where the users of the forum are maligning the owner of the forum .They won't dare.Infact, Sylvia has carefully filtered the forum to ensure that only those sympathetic to her views are able to post on the forum. When she took over SIERRANET from me , she was deleting any post that she found distasteful to her interest. If you deny, go there and see her last post. She deleted Waraba's postand that was the prelude to the closer of that forum. Only people who are "BORN SWEH" will allow unserious people to use their own sweat to malign them. WE WILL NOT. If you are not pleased with our measures, go to the other forums. You either obey our rules and regulations or you quit. You participate here at our terms not on your terms.
The same thing goes for COCORIOKO. We are not going to change our theme and style to satisfy hypocrites and phariseees who behave like the story of the man , his son and the donkey, which we all read in primary school. When the man sat on the donkey, they complained he was wicked and made his son walk while he rode the donkey. When he made the son ride and he walked, they complained that he was stupid.He was making the younger and stronger one ride while he, the elderly one, walked.When he made both of them ride the donkey, they cried out that he was wicked to give the donkey such a task. When he decided that none of them should ride, they laughed at him that he was stupid to make himself and his kid walk while they had a donkey to ride. The man concluded that you can never please everybody and he decided to do what he wanted. WE PUBLISH DIFFERENT ARTICLES, SOME AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.WHAT ELSE DO PEOPLE WANT US TO DO ?
If you are honest and serious people, go talk to the NEW PEOPLE to stop their gross fabrication and distortion of stories and promoting tribalism. Go tell AWARENESS TIMES to stop provoking tribes and members of the public to bedlam . COCORIOKO is not the only paper.
I want to make it clear that we will continue to promote THE ERNEST KOROMA GOVERNMENT. Nobody is forcing anybody to read our newspaper. If you are so hypocritical not to take AWARENESS TIMES and THE NEW PEOPLE to task for the objectionable things they publish, leave us alone let us do what we wish . You do not have moral standards or moral integrity to dictate to us. You swallow camels but strain at gnats.If you have moral integrity, you would have found something wrong with the NEW PEOPLE and AWARENESS TIMES as well. The fact that you are silent over what they write and you want to dictate to us confirms that you only want the voice of the SLPP to be heard. THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN. If you DON'T want to read about Ernest Koroma and his government, go elsewhere. You are not paying a cent for our services. Don't come and dictate to us.
We will also block the IPs of those who do not behave themselves or obey our rules. Say what you want.
Thank you very much .
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about Cocorioko and the forum
From: Lanre
To: All
Date Posted: 08:03:38 03/12/08 ()
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Kabs, don't stress yourself over the trouble-makers on the forum. The mudslinging, disrespect and threats is symtomatic of the low morals and interlectual decline that has plagued our youth and country (even the so-called educated). Imagine what some of them did to innocent people during the war... Imagine the negative compliment that well meaning people like yourself, Ambassador Leigh and a few others received from thankless people (thousands of them were spared deportation from the US by the steadfastness of Mr Leigh, but today they are blackmailing him). If you go to more mature fora (e.g. nigeria village square), you will witness people discussing pertinent national issues - all geared towards the collective betterment of the nation, but for Sierra Leoneans, nay...ours is to malign the very individuals who have the interest of the nation at heart. So, Kabs don't give them the opportunity, do your best to streamline the forum - make it an arena for debating progressive ideas that can be conveyed to the government by someone like yourself. Let your forum police delete all the rubbish postings so that we stop reading about tribal hatred early in the morning - leaving a bad taste in ones mouth. These are bitter people - ..."try to avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are a vexation to the heart"
Thanks,
Lanre
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about Cocorioko and the forum
From: Lanre
To: All
Date Posted: 08:58:53 03/12/08 ()
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sorry for the typo: the word is symptomatic NOT symtomatic
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about Cocorioko and the forum
From: Sa Leone Police
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Date Posted: 05:44:31 03/12/08 ()
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Rev. Kabs-Kanu,
I think you should concentrate on doing what you're doing well and for which people have been rightfully praising you.
Forget about New People and Awareness Times even though you seem to see them as rivals. You have to believe you're better than your rival for you to get better than your rival.
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about Cocorioko and the forum
From: God bless Kabs Kanu
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Date Posted: 05:47:47 03/12/08 ()
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Kabs:
May God bless you for the public service you offer for your fellow Sierra Leoneans. But I must say this and I hope you don't take it personal okay....but real men don't complain when cry babies do what they do best.
If the SLPP folks come to Cocorioko to cry, let's give them some milk as we might just win them over. No need to get angry at them Remember now, being angry is a sign of a breakdown in the thinking process. You are better than that and I know it. Stay cool my brother. Once again, may God bless you for doing what only a few can and willing to do.
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about Cocorioko and the forum
From: Forum Police
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Date Posted: 05:49:39 03/12/08 ()
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Due to technical problems, we lost the above postings but we have re-posted them. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Subject: will this have serious implications for Taylor's trial?
From: news
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Date Posted: 05:17:05 03/12/08 ()
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The man believed the financier for Taylor's enterprise to destabilise the sub region has been freed on a serious charge against him.
Will this help Charles Taylor's team to put up a spirited defence on his behalf. Legal minds, please, comment
A Dutch businessman was acquitted of war crimes and the illegal trading of weapons in Liberia by an appeal court in The Hague on Monday. The court said there was insufficient evidence to convict Guus Kouwenhoven.
The public prosecution department had demanded 20 years imprisonment and a fine of €450,000 against Kouwenhoven for the illegal import of arms to Liberia during the country’s civil war, reports NOS on Monday.
The appeal court said it was not convinced of the trustworthiness of witnesses who linked Kouwenhoven to arms dealing and war crimes.
Kouwenhoven was sentenced to eight years in prison for breaking the UN arms embargo on Liberia in 2006.
The court criticised the way prosecutors had conducted the investigation, saying they had not sufficiently checked testimonies even when the defence had shown numerous contradictions and mistakes, says press agency Reuters.
Subject: Where are investigator's postings
From: concerned forumite
To: All
Date Posted: 04:39:55 03/12/08 ()
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This guy has been doing some investigative journalism and was
enlightening us about some people. Where are his postings or has he
also been banned?
Subject: Re: Where are investigator's postings
From: Forum Police
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Date Posted: 05:20:41 03/12/08 ()
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This forum was set up for a very serious purpose, which is to debate the burning issues affecting our country. Anybody who comes here with a different agenda will now be prevented from participating. We are no longer prepared to allow people who have no respect for rules and regulations to override the purpose for which this forum was set up.
Subject: Re: Where are investigator's postings
From: Gongoli
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Date Posted: 11:04:30 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: Gonos@yahoo.com
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you dont have the capability or know-how to ban people from this forum. If you troway ashes, ashes go faller you. Stop encouraging personal attacks on people and you will have a nice and quiet time.
False Prophet. The bible did warn against people like Fine Boy
Subject: Re: Where are investigator's postings
From: KABS KANU
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Date Posted: 14:50:29 03/12/08 ()
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We have effectively banned 8 IPs belonging to you --all starting with 79.You will soon exhaust the computers in that Internet cafe you are using. So keep on trucking, sister, until you reach the end of the rope.
Subject: Re: Where are investigator's postings
From: Gongoli
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Date Posted: 16:52:40 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: Gonos@yahoo.com
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If that's what you think, keep banning. I will ban you from your own forum if you are not careful.
Subject: Re: Where are investigator's postings
From: Unconcerned forumite
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Date Posted: 05:05:39 03/12/08 ()
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I hope all those who think Cocorioko is their latrine are banned. Good work Moderator. The personal animus against Kabs by some forumites is really disgusting.
Subject: Re: Where are investigator's postings
From: Forum Police
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Date Posted: 05:31:30 03/12/08 ()
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The perpetuators are SLPP supporters who want to dictate to Kabs Kanu how he runs his forum and newspaper.I have never seen such hypocrisy before. Nobody goes to their own newspapers like the New People and Awareness Times to dictate what they write.How can they come here to dictate to us what Kabs writes ? Kabs is free to support who he wants to support just as the editors of the mentioned papers are free to be SLPP bootlickers.
Subject: Re: Where are investigator's postings
From: Gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 11:14:58 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
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Fine boy Kabs has a right to support whoever he wants but has to do so intelligently. He should stop encouraging people to abuse others. It hurts, and no one is immune to that. I used to admire him when he was in opposition but his sychophancy and stupidity has made my estimations of him drop quite considerably.
When I am in the states I will introduce myself to him. God bless Cocorioko
Subject: World warned on food price spiral
From: Madingo Man
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Date Posted: 02:06:26 03/12/08 ()
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Six families around the world share their shopping list and tell the BBC how the global rise in food prices has affected their eating habits. We will return to the families in the months ahead to see if prices have changed.
Subject: Reminds me of the Sylvia bootlickers
From: Fufu en sawasawa
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Date Posted: 22:54:20 03/11/08 ()
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Stop it. It ain't healthy
Subject: Re: Reminds me of the Sylvia bootlickers
From: Stop worshipping Gongolista
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Date Posted: 23:01:25 03/11/08 ()
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Oh No!
Subject: Re: Reminds me of the Sylvia bootlickers
From: Gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 11:09:34 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
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just what you are doing to KAB (Fine Boy)
Subject: Re: Reminds me of the Sylvia bootlickers
From: Fine Boy
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Date Posted: 11:43:30 03/12/08 ()
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And you are in love with that fine boy, er ? You have been posting about his looks all all over.Kabs nar fine boy.If at 54 he looks so great, imagine what he looked when your age.
Subject: Re: Reminds me of the Sylvia bootlickers
From: Gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 12:34:16 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-54-124.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.54.124
Message:
Nar you ar lek. Bend down low, let me show you what I've got.....hehehehehe
Tell him to ban me
Subject: Re: Reminds me of the Sylvia bootlickers
From: Nasty
To: All
Date Posted: 13:51:55 03/12/08 ()
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You really are a nasty, slimy repellent excuse for a human being. You keep attacking Kabs.....Post your damned picture and break the computer screen, oaf!
Subject: Twins
From: Freedom Of Speech
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Date Posted: 22:28:15 03/11/08 ()
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Subject: Re: Twins
From: Pa Morlai
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Date Posted: 16:58:16 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: Momoh@yahoo.com
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That looks like KABS in the background. i compared the picture with his birthday photo......no difference
Subject: Re: Twins
From: How now
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Date Posted: 07:02:06 03/13/08 ()
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Can Kabbs put an end to insults on Sylvia on this Forum. Untill you do this forum will continue to be in a mess.You can stop it Kabbs, do it now.
Subject: KABS IS HAPPY FOR THE ABUSE
From: okdok
To: All
Date Posted: 20:37:15 03/13/08 ()
Email Address: okdok@yahoo.com
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True
Subject: Re: Twins
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 07:18:47 03/13/08 ()
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I 100% concur..
Same way abuse of other ethnic groups should be stopped..
I understand sylvia might be a noted personality and "celebrities" are game.. But not abuse..
She can be discussed without resorting to gutterism..
Same as you cabs..
If people are banned for the mere fact they are opposed to APC policies.. i see no reason why they should not be banned and post deleted from tribe and ethnic bashing..
Anyways.. my own thursay morning sermon.
Subject: Re: Twins
From: Respect
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Date Posted: 15:14:23 03/14/08 ()
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Same way the president cannot be the subject of abuse by sylvia. Respect is a two way street.
Subject: Re: Twins
From: Rambler
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Date Posted: 23:02:58 03/11/08 ()
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Which of the two baboons is Miss Blyden?
Subject: Re: Twins
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 22:44:31 03/11/08 ()
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She is not as ugly as you guys would like us to believe.
Subject: Re: Twins
From: Fufu en sawasawa
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Date Posted: 22:45:49 03/11/08 ()
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Oh yes, she most definitely is!
Subject: Re: Twins
From: Fufu en sawasawa
To: All
Date Posted: 22:44:30 03/11/08 ()
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Teeheeheeheehee. I wonder who the more beautiful twin is!
Subject: Re: Twins
From: Keen Observer
To: All
Date Posted: 22:44:16 03/11/08 ()
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She is not as ugly as you guys would like us to believe.
Subject: Re: Twins
From: Saspo
To: All
Date Posted: 11:40:44 03/12/08 ()
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You have not seen Gongoli yet without her extensive make-up.The girl is so ugly that she is now in her 30s and she has nobody to marry her.
Subject: The Leone
From: JUst Asking
To: All
Date Posted: 19:57:41 03/11/08 ()
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How many leones make one United States dollar at the moment?
Subject: Re: The Leone
From: Candid Opinion
To: All
Date Posted: 07:23:22 03/12/08 ()
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Message:
See daily rates here.. Look to the top left..
http://goodfambul.com/
http://www.visitsierraleone.org/exchangerate.asp
Plenty of resources out there..
Subject: Sierra Leone: Comahs Students Decry Poor Services
From: Concord Times
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Date Posted: 18:36:08 03/11/08 ()
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Sierra Leone: Comahs Students Decry Poor Services
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Concord Times (Freetown)
11 March 2008
Posted to the web 11 March 2008
Olusegun Ogundeji
Since College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) students were moved to their permanent site in Kossoh, east of Freetown in January 2008, they have not been enjoying a considerable amount of basic facilities like water and electricity.
Some COMHAS students who were with the hope that the new environment will provide better opportunities for them to learn in terms of conduciveness revealed to Concord Times that the reverse is the case.
A cross section of the students said since they arrived the new site, they have not, for one day, enjoyed the luxury of electricity but are left with no other option than to light candles or lanterns which apart from being costly to maintain, are very dangerous for their environment and do not serve their desired need.
Water supply too have been irregular for quite some time though students are expected to get water every three days. It was reported that since the last week of February when water was last supplied to the campus, they just got another supply on Friday 7th March.
However, a call to COMAHS revealed that the school authority is not pleased with the situation too. A source, speaking under condition of anonymity, said the school management has written series of letters to the Ministry of Energy and Power for the issue of electricity to be resolved. He added that since the ministry disclosed that the lack of power supply to the school was due to some National Power Authority (NPA) conductors that were stolen some months ago, a replacement has not been done.
For the water, he said the shortage in water supply was as a result of the faults developed by the school's water tanker. He said the problem has been fixed though and that is why water was supplied last Friday and yesterday.
Two COMAHS students share a room and they pay a sum of Le250,000 each for accommodation.
Subject: Sierra Leone: Mr. President We Need Your Security!
From: Concord Times
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Date Posted: 18:33:51 03/11/08 ()
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Sierra Leone: Mr. President We Need Your Security!
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OPINION
11 March 2008
Posted to the web 11 March 2008
Regina Pratt
As the adage goes, 'Monkey no dae lef him black am', meaning a monkey would not leave its black hand, Mr.
President we need your security in this country as we do not want to re-experience our past actions.
Happenings in the past few weeks are calling for concern from citizens so we need your security. We are even of the opinion that the All Peoples Congress (APC) and some of its supporters are yet to change from their old habits.
Elections are over and we need peace in the country but a number of the recent incidents in the country will scare away investors, which will not be good for the people of this country.
The killings of business people are also a security threat to the lives and property of people who have the intention to carry out business activities in the country.
Mr. President, it is high time you lend me your voice over the state radio to comment on what is happening in the country. We know there are post-election problems but not at this rate as we are experiencing it in the country.
We do not need chaos in this country especially those that are politically-motivated.
Taking the case of the two Fullah businessmen who were killed in cold blood as example, are police officers going to wait for another three years before they investigate the matter? Mr. President we need your security.
This kind of happenings in the country will scare away people who are willing to come and contribute to its development. Also, big time investors would be affected too.
At immigration, the workers down their tools saying Immigration Officer, Mrs. Alice Kamara is not cooperating with them and that she is making the work hectic for them. Why are they demonstrating against her at this point in time?
Likewise, the Bank of Sierra Leone workers engaged in industrial actions against their senior authorities.
The incident at Muslim Congress in which police and students engaged each other in a confrontation is another aspect of security lapses.
A lady Jasmine Conteh was recently questioned for a food eaten by one of her colleagues which later in the man's death. The unfortunate incident happened some three years ago while the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) was in power.
But according to police sources, the matter was just being reported to the Coroners office for further investigations this January 2008. Now are they trying to say that they are now investigating the matter because the SLPP is no more in power?
The two recent attacks on the SLPP offices in Freetown and Bo are another example of security lapses which could have created some political chaos in the country.
This is not the time for APC supporters to take laws into their own hands.
This is a very bad image for the party as it could cost the party to lose popularity.
Mr. President, I want you to take your quiet moment and think about these raised issues and give us security.
The rate at which armed robbers are terrorizing people in the city and other parts of the country is becoming too rampant thus creating fear in the people.
One senior civil servant told me that once he has the opportunity to leave this country, his return will be in the coffin.
Mr. President, our decade-old war developed from some of these issues- bad governance, corruption and unemployment - and to crown it all, people are saying that the APC is back with thuggery. Your government is too young to encounter this kind of problems.
Elections are over now -although the local council elections is around the corner- but most of these incidents should stop. That's why we are seeking for your security.
Since you were inaugurated, one of your main appeal has been for "us all to come together and develop the country as elections are over" but we need to do to the goose what we should do to the gander. Mr.
President, we need your security.
Subject: The APC govenment should protect the land and the people!
From: Sorie Ibrahim Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 05:42:13 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: soyanka@yahoo.com
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I do realize that Sierra Leone is the only country on earth that has no viable identity card for its indigenes!!!!!! The concerned authority should do something now before it is toooooooo late.
Let's take an example on the number of West Africans who have immersed in the Sierra Leone populace over the past 30 years. No attempt has ever been made even to question people identities in the streets as our neighbouring countries do - Guinea, Gambia, Ivory Coast to name only but few do. I am sure nobody dares to do that for the fear of its very citizens being expelled to unknown destinations because of the non availability of national identity card to the majority of the people in Sierra Leone. It is worthy to be mentioned here that dangerous criminals are currently infiltrating our tiny land and penetrating into the populace causing untold harm on both the impoverish economy of the state and to its helpless indigenes.
In the first place, let the APC government take a swift action to identify all Sierra Leoneans by introducing a national database.
Then shift to the economic immigrants whom I considered to be infiltrators before it's too late. Other countries like Angola, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea etc are expelling illegal immigrants to protect the future interest of their people. In present day Africa, the above mentioned countries are role models in terms of development. If Sierra Leone wants to sustain steady progress, which I am sure is the central focus of the present APC government; it should therefore pay serious attention in identifying its nationals.
Sorie Ibrahim Kanu
Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
Subject: Sierra Leone: Amidst Economic Hardship Koroma Calls On Bush
From: Business man
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Date Posted: 18:31:56 03/11/08 ()
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Sierra Leone: Amidst Economic Hardship Koroma Calls On Bush to Intervene
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Concord Times (Freetown)
11 March 2008
Posted to the web 11 March 2008
Bhoyy Jalloh
Current spate of increased price variation has apparently deepened economic hardship in Sierra Leone leaving President Ernest Bai Koroma to call for the immediate intervention of President George Walker Bush, a traditional donor partner.
Making his plea through the newly appointed ambassadors to the United States and Liberia Bockarie Stevens and Reverend Marie Barnet respectively at State House in Freetown, Koroma Monday beseeched the US President to also support the country's young democratic process.
He said the US government has done a lot for Sierra Leone but that there are still more support it could offer to the country now that his government is ever determined to meet all required benchmarks.
"We have been affected drastically by the current increase in prices of commodities in the world. So the US government should do something to support the democratic process in Sierra Leone," he implored.
Koroma told ambassador Stevens to reopen the doors of US to Sierra Leone while he encouraged Sierra Leoneans in the US to return home and contribute to national development.
Both emissaries have pledged to do their best.
Ambassador to Liberia Rev. Barnet told the President that Liberia has a lot to share in common with Sierra Leone in terms of socio-economic and political culture.
The US is one of Sierra Leone's traditional donors.
Through its agency for international development, USAID, the US government has supported Sierra Leone in different facets of development such as health, education, democracy and security.
Subject: Pertinent matters about COCORIOKO and this forum
From: Kabs Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 18:17:27 03/11/08 ()
Email Address:
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Message:
The Cocorioko Forum was set up to encourage Sierra Leoneans and lovers of Sierra Leone to debate on matters of supreme national interest to our nation and our world. This purpose seems to be under abuse by those who think they have the testicular fortitude to dictate how we run our newspaper and forum.
Well, let this be said. We are not going to allow anybody to dictate to us. Nobody goes to the NEW PEOPLE or AWARENESS TIMES to dictate to them what they write or how they run their forums.
We are suffering from this because we have been too lenient with people on this forum. Lots of concerned people have advised me and the moderator many times to make this a controlled forum but because we love freedom we have not done so. It is important to note that even the great LEONENET started as an open forum like this but according to the ADMINISTRATOR, Mr. Claude Meama-Kajue, Sierra Leoneans were misbehaving and abusing the forum and thus he had no alternative but to make it a controlled forum--and today, he is reaping the rich dividends.
We have made this forum open because we thought Sierra Leoneans would act responsibly and with maturity. This however is not being done. And to add insult to injury, people want to reward us for all the money we are spending to give them a newspaper and forum by maligning us on our own forum.
Let me say this clear and loud: It will not happen. Nobody will use our sweat to tarnish our names. In this regard, the COCORIOKO FORUM is going to start showing taking very strong actions against those allergic to rules,as our moderator once said.
Freedom of speech is not absolute. It goes with certain responsibilities. If we think we can use our freedom to show our legendary ungrateful and unserious spirit by maligning the owners of this forum, let me say it again : IT WILL NOT HAPPEN . As a first step, effective immediately, IPs will now be shown as a first step towards making this a controlled forum. Either that or we will think about closing down the forum because people are not using it for the purpose for which it was set up.
Go to the AWARENESS TIMES FORUM .Show me anywhere where the users of the forum are maligning the owner of the forum .They won't dare.Infact, Sylvia has carefully filtered the forum to ensure that only those sympathetic to her views are able to post on the forum. When she took over SIERRANET from me , she was deleting any post that she found distasteful to her interest. If you deny, go there and see her last post. She deleted Waraba's postand that was the prelude to the closer of that forum. Only people who are "BORN SWEH" will allow unserious people to use their own sweat to malign them. WE WILL NOT. If you are not pleased with our measures, go to the other forums. You either obey our rules and regulations or you quit. You participate here at our terms not on your terms.
The same thing goes for COCORIOKO. We are not going to change our theme and style to satisfy hypocrites and phariseees who behave like the story of the man , his son and the donkey, which we all read in primary school. When the man sat on the donkey, they complained he was wicked and made his son walk while he rode the donkey. When he made the son ride and he walked, they complained that he was stupid.He was making the younger and stronger one ride while he, the elderly one, walked.When he made both of them ride the donkey, they cried out that he was wicked to give the donkey such a task. When he decided that none of them should ride, they laughed at him that he was stupid to make himself and his kid walk while they had a donkey to ride. The man concluded that you can never please everybody and he decided to do what he wanted. WE PUBLISH DIFFERENT ARTICLES, SOME AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.WHAT ELSE DO PEOPLE WANT US TO DO ?
If you are honest and serious people, go talk to the NEW PEOPLE to stop their gross fabrication and distortion of stories and promoting tribalism. Go tell AWARENESS TIMES to stop provoking tribes and members of the public to bedlam . COCORIOKO is not the only paper.
I want to make it clear that we will continue to promote THE ERNEST KOROMA GOVERNMENT. Nobody is forcing anybody to read our newspaper. If you are so hypocritical not to take AWARENESS TIMES and THE NEW PEOPLE to task for the objectionable things they publish, leave us alone let us do what we wish . You do not have moral standards or moral integrity to dictate to us. You swallow camels but strain at gnats.If you have moral integrity, you would have found something wrong with the NEW PEOPLE and AWARENESS TIMES as well. The fact that you are silent over what they write and you want to dictate to us confirms that you only want the voice of the SLPP to be heard. THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN. If you DON'T want to read about Ernest Koroma and his government, go elsewhere. You are not paying a cent for our services. Don't come and dictate to us.
We will also block the IPs of those who do not behave themselves or obey our rules. Say what you want.
Thank you very much .
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about COCORIOKO and this forum
From: Gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 11:01:50 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: Gonos@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-65-98-119.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.65.98.119
Message:
Fine boy, I told you you can't stop me. At least I keep you busy. I wait to see how long babuboy will delete this entry. I am in Freetown, why don't you tell you APC thugs to come and beat me up
IDIOT FALSE PROPHET.
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about COCORIOKO and this forum
From: Gongoli
To: All
Date Posted: 03:20:19 03/12/08 ()
Email Address: gonos@yahoo.com
Entered From: 79-66-93-27.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com at 79.66.93.27
Message:
Fine Boy Kabs, is it because you have also been exposed as a worwor, ugly, bitter gorilla. Your forum is full of obscenities against people who try to be objective or are oppossers of the APC. You need to develop the knack to listen to other peoples' views without casting them as SLPP.
A few weeks ago there was a tirade of abuse on Krios, which i did not see you try to curtail. If you were serious about that you could have stopped this person instantly. But you allowed it to happen because you were not affected. I was very happy when the APC was voted into power but I started having doubts when your forum in particular started encouraging tribalistic views. For me, I will always comment on matters that I deem fit.
Talking about freedom of speech, if you encourage people to use disparaging remarks about others, why should the same not be done to you? Check out my IP address and ban me if you like. You can only ban the IP address but not the computer. Your ban will only last a minute.
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about COCORIOKO and this forum
From: Salone Police
To: All
Date Posted: 23:55:08 03/11/08 ()
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Rev. Kabs-Kanu,
I think you should concentrate on doing what you're doing well and for which people have been rightfully praising you.
Forget about New People and Awareness Times even though you seem to see them as rivals. You have to believe you're better than your rival for you to get better than your rival.
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about COCORIOKO and this forum
From: God bless Kabs Kanu
To: All
Date Posted: 22:01:27 03/11/08 ()
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Message:
Kabs:
May God bless you for the public service you offer for your fellow Sierra Leoneans. But I must say this and I hope you don't take it personal okay....but real men don't complain when cry babies do what they do best.
If the SLPP folks come to Cocorioko to cry, let's give them some milk as we might just win them over. No need to get angry at them Remember now, being angry is a sign of a breakdown in the thinking process. You are better than that and I know it. Stay cool my brother. Once again, may God bless you for doing what only a few can and willing to do.
Subject: Re: Pertinent matters about COCORIOKO and this forum
From: TRUE PATRIOT
To: All
Date Posted: 18:59:28 03/11/08 ()
Email Address:
Entered From: at 84.54.30.6
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You seem to be obsessed with NEW PEOPLE and AWARENESS TIMES. You are always writing against them but they don't seem to have the time of the day for you. Bufoon. Look at your face. Bitter like balanga!